LETTERS: City Council pay, roadway improvements
April 28, 2021
Guest Column: Two historic events to remember this Veterans Day
Guest column by Citrus Heights resident Michael Bullington–
One hundred years ago, two events took place that would shape the history of our world in an indelible way. One was a belated blessing; the other was an imminent evil.
On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany, to the relief of beleaguered English and French troops that had been battling the Kaiser’s forces since the summer of 1914. On the other side of the Continent, in October 1917, the Bolsheviks toppled the Tsarist government in Russia, paving the way for a political philosophy that would suffocate countries around the world even until the present day. America’s army had been smaller than either those of the Greeks or the Bulgarians, and we were therefore not viewed as an immediate threat to Germany’s imperial designs. Sensing a short window of time before we built up enough to take the field, the Germans hurried their troops from the East to the Western Front to expedite the capture of Paris, generally considered the key to winning the war…
