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80 - 61 - Flandrischen Kriegsschauplatz, somewhere near Lys left his foot. Our boys made us honor, - When the United States declared war on Germany and later also on Austria-Hungary, this welcomed the Czechoslovak people in the United states as a solution from the deadly fears for the outcome of the struggle. At the moment,. When Woodrow Wilson on the U.S. congregated his ceremonial war message on February 2, 1872. April 19l7, which began with the memorable words: "I have called the congress into extraordinary session ..." uild ended with the glorious appeal addressed to the American people: "This task we want to sacrifice our lives and our ability, all we are and all we have, so that the pride of those who know that the day will come, on which Ámerika was given the happiness to sacrifice his blood and his strength for the ideals from which he was born and from which his happiness and his peace, which it so much appreciated, were born. God help America, it couldn't help.", at that time the Czechoslovak love for the land of Linvoln showed itself, and tens of thousands of sons of Czecho-Slovak blood, whether born in Amert xa or in the old homeland under the Tatras or on the Elbe, enthused themselves under the American flags, attempts were made to form special Slavic regiments, but when one left of this thought, our boys went to the American army, set themselves up in the military camps for the task that was waiting for them. Nevertheless, it was later decided that stateless people could not participate in the battles on the western front, fighting 3o.ooo men of our blood at Chateau Thierry, where the American army intervened in the bloody battles, at St. Michel, where also the flowering of the Czechoslovak sons of the great republic is buried. The most difficult test of our strength - unfortunately, the one that had been exhausted a lot - came with the Clemence decision that the Russian Czecho-Slovak Arnee should be transported to the French battlefields. The more it became clear that the hope that was put into this army was - 62 -