Anonymous ID: b8aacc July 24, 2024, 2:01 p.m. No.21284991   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Martin Treptow from small Cherokee, Iowa, enlisted in the army. By December 1917, his regiment was sent to France to fight in the trenches of the Western Front. As a New Yearโ€™s resolution, Treptow wrote the following in his diary under the title โ€œMy Pledge:โ€

 

โ€œAmerica must win this war. Therefore I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone.โ€