Movie "War Horse" Sparks Interest in World War I

From the Feb. 18, 2012, Kansas City Star "Interest in WW sparks attendance at Kansas City museum" by Nicholas Swan.

The movie "War Horse" has sparked an increase in World War I judging by more people visiting the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial in Kansas City. Attendance in 2010 was 133,355 and in 2011 climbed to 141,327.

During the war, Boy Scouts looked for subversives. Hamburgers became Liberty Patties and frankfurters Liberty Sausages because of their German connection.

German-Americans were locked up in prisons.

--Cooter