Chapter 3
The next morning the United States became a nation at war. The skyscrapers stood silent but watching over the people-crowded streets stretching from the waterways that came and went from far, far places. This was the day three years coming since the problems in Europe had grown beyond reason. This was what they had read papers for and asked questions about, and everyone pretended to have known all along that our boys would be going over there before long. Newspaper headlines proclaimed the sinking of the U.S. warship Aztec by the Imperial German government off the shores of Brest where 28 American lives were lost. It was too much to be endured. President Wilson had decided.
“Extra! Extra! Read all about it,” shouted small-framed boys in oversized frock coats standing on the str
