Part Two
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16. The __th fold, or when the flag is completely folded, the stars are uppermost reminding them of their nation’s motto, "In ___ We Trust". ALL OR NOTHING!
17. After a tragedy or death, the flag is flown at half staff for __ days. It's called "half staff" on land, and "half mast" on a ____. ALL OR NOTHING!
18. The Star Spangled Banner: This Flag became the Official United States Flag on May 1st, 1795. Two stars were added for the admission of Vermont (the 14th State and ____the __th State, and was to last for 23 years. ALL OR NOTHING!
19. President Abraham Lincoln's casket was draped with this flag, known as the "Great ____" flag. It was made by ____, and later used in the funeral of President John F. Kennedy. ALL OR NOTHING!
20. I put on a beautiful ceremony of burning the ____. I am part of an organization called ___ _____ of America. ALL OR NOTHING!
*WORLD WAR 1
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21. John McCrae's In Flanders Fields remains to this day one of the most memorable war poems ever written. It is a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the _____salient in the spring of 1915.
22. The Spectator, in London, rejected the ______ poem, but _____ published it on 8 December 1915.
23. It was an American woman poet, Harriet Monroe, who founded and edited the first American periodical devoted exclusively to ____, and who published some of Rosenberg's work.
24. In the summer of 1914 the British government suspected an imminent war with Turkey and took measures to protect oil supplies from Abadan. The Indian Army and the Royal Navy's Gulf Division, were placed at the mouth of the Shatt-al-Arab and when war was declared on __th November, they moved forward and took the port of Basra.
25. Rats in their millions infested trenches. There were two main types, the brown and the black rat. Both were despised but the brown rat was especially feared. Gorging themselves on _____ remains (grotesquely disfiguring them by eating their eyes and liver) they could grow to the size of a cat.
26. Lice caused Trench _____, a particularly painful disease that began suddenly with severe pain followed by high fever. Recovery - away from the trenches - took up to twelve weeks. Lice were not actually identified as the culprit of _____ Fever until 1918. [Please don’t miss this one! :]
27. Trench Foot was another medical condition peculiar to trench life. It was a fungal infection of the feet caused by cold, wet and unsanitary trench conditions. It could turn gangrenous and result in ______. Trench Foot was more of a problem at the start of trench warfare; as conditions improved in 1915 it rapidly faded, although a trickle of cases continued throughout the war.
28. Pumping equipment was available for the draining of trenches; men would also be assigned to the repair of the trench itself. Still others would be assigned to the preparation of _____.
29. Rotting carcasses lay around in their thousands. For example, approximately 200 ______ men were killed on the Somme battlefields, many of which lay in shallow graves.
30. Death was a constant companion to those serving in the line, even when no raid or attack was launched or defended against. In busy sectors the constant shellfire directed by the enemy brought random death, whether their victims were lounging in a trench or lying in a ______ (many men were buried as a consequence of such large shell-bursts).
31. Stand-To lasted between half an hour and an hour, after which each man would be ordered to stand down; breakfast would follow in the morning. Stand-To came to be referred to as "___Morning ____", for self-evident reasons.
32. Allinson was moved by what he read: "The poem was exactly an exact description of the scene in front of us both. He used the word blow in that line because the poppies actually were being blown that morning by a gentle ____wind.”
33. It is estimated that there were around 37.5 million total casualties of the First World War out of 65 million troops mobilized. Up to ___ million are said to have died.
34. The Wipers Times took its name for the army slang for Ypres, where it was first produced. It emulated Punch, but contained a more specific type of comedy relating exclusively to the soldiers on the ____ Front
35. During Stand-To, both sides would often relieve the tension of the early hours with ____ ___ ____, shelling and small arms fire, directed into the mist to their front: this made doubly sure of safety at dawn.
