"From the First Liberty Loan to the Draft, from the Draft to the period of heatless days and meatless days, New York has showed good temper which used to be considered as but an indication of incorrigible lightness of mind. And as the months have gone by New York's interest in herself as a military center has grown and deepened, with the growing consciousness of the high part she was to play in an adventure that has done more for her as a social organism than anything else in her history."
Click here to read about New York City in 1917.
Click here to read about NYC during the Second World War.
Click here to learn about the New Yorkers who volunteered to fight the Germans and Japanese in W.W. II.
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