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Decoded in the days after it was intercepted by British Naval Intelligence, Germany’s Zimmermann Telegram was ultimately revealed to the initially incredulous American Embassy in late February 1917.  In the telegram Germany proposed a military alliance with Mexico against the United States, promising in return the restoration of lost territories such as Arizona, Texas and New Mexico.

Shown here is a later confirmation decode made by Edward Bell of the American Embassy in London, and sent to the State Department on March 2, 1917

(via todaysdocument:)

carlovely: in flanders fields the poppies blow, between the crosses, row on row that mark our place; and in the sky the larks, still bravely singing, fly scarce heard amid the guns below. we are the dead. short days ago. we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow. loved and were loved, and now we lie, in flanders fields. take up our quarrel with the foe: to you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high. if ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in flanders fields.lest we forget.

carlovely:

in flanders fields the poppies blow, between the crosses, row on row that mark our place; and in the sky the larks, still bravely singing, fly scarce heard amid the guns below.

we are the dead. short days ago. we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow. loved and were loved, and now we lie, in flanders fields.

take up our quarrel with the foe: to you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high. if ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in flanders fields.

lest we forget.