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The icegirls cometh

todaysdocument:

Girls deliver ice. Heavy work that formerly belonged to men only is being done by girls. The ice girls are delivering ice on a route and their work requires brawn as well as the partriotic ambition to help. 09/16/1918

From the Records of the War Department; American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918

There was also a human cost in a larger sense, in that I think the [first world] war remade the world for the worse in every conceivable way: it ignited the Russian revolution, it laid the ground for Nazism and it made World War II almost certain. It’s pretty hard to imagine the Second World War without the First.

— On today’s Fresh Air Historian Adam Hochschild  traces the patriotic fervor that catapulted Great Britain into war during the summer of 1914 — as well as the small-but-determined British pacifist movement — in his historical narrative To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918.

Veteran’s Day: Armistice Day is in memory of the truce of 1918, when on the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent.