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| Keywords: Boy Scouts NGM-v31-p359.jpg WAKE UP AMERICA It was an inspiring moment when during the great parade up Fifth avenue New York recently the boy scouts charged with flags flying This photograph was taken during the April 19 1917 Parade in New York City called the Wake Up America parade This parade was days after the U S declared war on Germany on April 6 signaling our involvement in WWI President Woodrow Wilson who was just inaugurated for a second term called for large recruitment into the armed forces and these Wake Up America parades were held in many places across the country in support of recruitment A surprising amount of 60 000 people attended this single parade in New York This exact photograph was digitized from a 1917 copy of a National Geographics Magazine 300 ppi scan of the National Geographic Magazine Volume 31 1917 page 359 1917 Digitzed 22 May 2005 Underwood Underwood public domain pre-1923 PD-Underwood 5th Avenue Manhattan 1917 in New York City Boys of the United States Boy Scouts of America Black and white photographs of flags of the United States Parades in New York City Underwood Underwood 1917 National Geographic Magazine April 1917 Scouting in New York | ||||
