Officer's Club

ID: 1602 ~ Source: Kee, Grace Hasseltine Jenkins, interviewed by Margaret Miller, May 13, 1980, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
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Grace Hasseltine Jenkins Kee tells of some of the activities and dances the soldiers partook in.

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By Amanda Sawyer
Ten weeks after the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, Waco was chosen as the site for a military training camp. The United States initially lacked the military manpower needed to fight in the war and needed to rapidly increase the…