Congress had approved President Woodrow Wilson's request for a declaration of war against Germany. Now the Army was building a center between Baltimore and Washington — a messy, improvised, sprawling installation, arising with astonishing speed — to train hundreds of thousands of troops for the global conflagration they called the Great War.
"Camp Meade was all hustle and bustle," Cuff later recalled. "There were stacks of raw lumber everywhere, and the camp rang with the noise of hammering and sawing and other building sounds. Later, there were boardwalks, but in the beginning you waded ankle deep in dust in dry weather, in mud when it rained."
Camp Meade would grow into Fort Meade, Maryland's largest workplace, an economic force for the region and a key defense center for the nation.
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Wilson was an evil, evil man. We had no business AT ALL being involved in ANY WAY in World War one. Lets the Europeans tear themselves apart- what did it have to do with us? ALL of this nation's troubles can be laid squarely on the feet of Satan Wilson.
Wilson represented a major milestone in liberalism because he truly believed that government "experts" knew what was best for the average citizen.
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