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I Didn T Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier Analysis

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Though it is almost 100 hundred years since the World War I end, it can still cause heated discussion among the people for whether it is patriotic of being involved in this war. Reasons vary with various resources from both sides.
Reasons that caught my great interests from the opposing sides are as below. One of the reasons is the song “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier”1 which is a hit anti-war song back in 1915 which shows its firm attitude that people have lost a lot for the war and the purpose of the war is far away from what people thought originally. Another one is “Eugene Debs: “Canton, Ohio”2, a speech from June 16, 1918. This speech doubted greatly about the purpose of the devastating war and the people …show more content…

It is one of the first anti-war songs. Lyricist Alfred Bryan collaborated with composer Al Piantadosi in writing the song, which inspired a sequel, some imitations, but also a number of scornful parodies. It was a hit in 1915, selling 650,000 copies. Its expression of popular pacifist sentiment "helped make the pacifist movement a hard, quantifiable political reality to be reckoned with."
2: “Canton, Ohio” speech made on June 16, 1918 by Marc Ruffalo. Eugene Debs made his famous anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, protesting World War I which was raging in Europe. For this speech he was arrested and convicted in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio under the war-time espionage law.
3: On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to seek a Declaration of War against Germany in order that the world “be made safe for democracy.” Four days later, Congress voted to declare war, with six senators and fifty House members dissenting.
4: "When the Lusitania Went Down" Columbia A1772 (historic, recorded 13 days after the Lusitania

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