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Woodrow Wilson's Speech  I stand before you addressing the issue of the war and the United States remaining neutral in this war. Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that due to recent events that the decision to remain neutral is not in our best interest anymore. Therefore, I have decided that we must enter the war and end our neutrality. While this decision was very difficult for me, I feel it is the right thing to do at this time. I know that everyone has an opinion about this issue and that many may disagree with me but I feel this will help our country in the long run. I know we will face many hardships in the near future because of this decision but I beg you to look at the big picture. In time, I hope many of you will realize that what I am doing will help to shape our future in a way that will be nothing but positive. To help you understand my decision, I would like to first address some of the reasons why we need to move forward and go to war. While I will not be able to reveal all of the reasons, I will highlight some of the most pertinent ones. One of the major reasons I decided we needed to move forward with war is because of the unrestricted submarine warfare. Germany is trying to punish Britain in many ways and this is just one of the more severe ways they are doing it. They are sending submarines to sink Britain supply ships to deprive them of their necessary resources. I was very disturbed when I heard about these actions. Another upsetting action taken by Germany would be the discovery of the Zimmerman Note. This was a note that Germany sent to Mexico trying to get them to form an alliance with them against the United States. Luckily we have intercepted the note and this alignment will not take place.  There are many goals that I wish to accomplish with my decision to go to war. There are 14 main points in my objective and they have come to be known as Wilson's 14 Points. To summarize my objectives, I will say that my main goals include self-determination, disarmament, freedom to navigate the seas, no blame and no punishment, and lastly the formation of a league of nations to protect all the states equally. Please refer to Wilson's 14 Points for the remainder of my objectives. While I have only highlighted a few of the reasons why I feel the time is right for us to enter into the war with Germany, please understand there are many more that I can not go into at this time. I have also tried to show you what goals I wish to accomplish with this war. Together if we unite and believe, we will triumph and come through this war to be a stronger United States.

The song “I Didn’t Raise My Son to be a Soldier” was written to raise the awareness of young men fighting and dying too young in the war. It was written to show the depth of the loss of these young men and the impact that their families felt when their sons went off to war. Specifically it was meant to unite all the mothers of the young men that were sent off to war to join together to end the fighting or find a different solution to the fighting. It reminded us that the young men were recruited to fight in battles for people that they did not know and for reasons that they had nothing to do with. They were dying or were injured because they were trying to protect who they were told to protect, regardless of what they believed in. The song lyrics may have affected the war effort as it was made to express the point of not recruiting younger men to fight in the war. The lyrics demonstrated that the soldiers and their families wanted them to stay home, marry and have kids instead of going to fight foreign affairs for the welfare of others. It wanted the young men to have the right to grow old and not have their lives cut short for the sake of others. They were young and had their whole lives in front of them still and they should have had a choice if they wanted to fight. The heartfelt words from this song may have impacted the actual effort that the soldiers put into the war. The lyrics may have made them realize that they were not born to fight, that they were told to fight. The song showed the likelihood of dying in the war was great and what the young men were giving up was far greater than they realized. This may have led to some soldiers not fighting as hard as they could have because they realized they didn't belong there or they didn't want to be there. The underlying message of the song showed us that it didn't matter what side of the war you were fighting on, with war, someone's son is always dying. media type="custom" key="5110059""Biography of Woodrow Wilson"

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