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| Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome outdoor black and white 2014-1019m Description: COs at Fort Riley who were of Low German background. This snapshot is revealing with respect to the issue of wearing a uniform. Though most of the men are wearing a military uniform, five of the men in the back row are dresses in civilian clothes, according to Henry Gaede, because they refused to wear the uniform. The ambivalence about whether or not to wear a uniform was typical of the Mennonite response to almost every aspect of WWI. Date: ca. 1918 Location: Fort Riley, Kansas MLA filing: World War I -Mennonite COs (5) Original Size: 10 x 6 cm Note: There are two copies of this photo, as well as the negative Note: Used in Gerlof Homan's "American Mennonites and the Great War", p. 112 Note: See "Kansas History, winter 1981, p. 258 2014-1019m Description: COs at Fort Riley who were of Low German background. This snapshot is revealing with respect to the issue of wearing a uniform. Though most of the men are wearing a military uniform, five of the men in the back row are dresses in civilian clothes, according to Henry Gaede, because they refused to wear the uniform. The ambivalence about whether or not to wear a uniform was typical of the Mennonite response to almost every aspect of WWI. Date: ca. 1918 Location: Fort Riley, Kansas MLA filing: World War I -Mennonite COs (5) Original Size: 10 x 6 cm Note: There are two copies of this photo, as well as the negative Note: Used in Gerlof Homan's "American Mennonites and the Great War", p. 112 Note: See "Kansas History, winter 1981, p. 258 | ||||
