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My Fellow Americans, You say you do not want to interfere with the war between Britain and Germany. You say you want to stay neutral and keep your children home, safe with you. But if you want justice, peace, happiness and power, you will listen to what I have to say as your personal representative. Europe is a big trading partner with America. We buy and sell many products there. As we speak, Germany and Britain are at war. Right now, Germany does not like us trading with their enemy. They have threatened to seek revenge with whoever continues to trade with Britain. We, however, have not listened to this threat. Therefore, Germany has bombed a British ship, the “Lusitania.” Although this is not an American ship, it has still affected us. One-hundred and twenty eight Americans were on board this ship and were killed.

Another thing, to which you might not know, is that Germany had asked Mexico to attack us. They sent a telegraph called the Zimmerman Note to ask Mexico to side with them and attack us. We, fortunately, intercepted the note so Mexico never received the message. Should they threaten to bomb us and get away with it?

Europe is at war. They have built a huge, modern army with advanced weapons. The German Army is “beastly” and they have also declared an “unrestricted submarine warfare.” This is our chance. We have the power to defeat them with our technology and that is what they fear most, us taking advantage of the unrestricted warfare. Do you want to give them what they wish and stay out and risk losing our European trading partners? Or give them their biggest fear and show them what the United States of America can do? We have the power to defeat Germany and win the battle, and we will succeed!

Thank You

//The song “I Didn’t Raise My Son to be a Soldier” has great meaning to the people, especially mothers. This song was designed to show the government a reason they do not want to go to war and to convince other mothers to feel the same way. They do not want their beloved sons to fight against, and try to kill, another mother’s son. They don’t see the point in that. Mothers raise their sons as their “pride and joy,” not to hold a musket in their arms. All mothers want their children home safe with them, knowing where they are and what they are doing. They do not want the fear of the sons not returning home.// // This song has deep effect on people. It shows good reasons of why some Americas may want to stay out of the war. This song is dangerous to the government because it just may convince people who wanted war, to stay away from it.// media type="custom" key="5110093"

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