From the April 5th Salt Lake City Deseret News "World War I left impact years after conclusion" by Mark Haddock.
The April 5, 1917 Deseret News headlines blared "SENATE DECLARES FOR WAR." World War I had been raging for three years, but now the US was going to get into it which it did 93 years ago this week.
It would be one year before the first Utahn (so that's what they call a person from Utah) was killed. Raymond F. Crow died near Verdun, France by shrapnel from an exploding German shell.
The war was over 7 months later, but another 644 Utah soldiers had died of a total of 21,000 from the state. Most of these trained at Fort Douglas, which became a prison after the training and was a final deployment site when the men returned.
More Utah in World War I to Come. --Cooter
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