T ime plays strange tricks on history.
In 1914, most Americans did not want to become involved in the war that was sweeping across Europe. Eighty years later, one may tend to look back with the benefit of hindsight and sadly shake one's head at the euphoria that briefly attended the German surrender at Versailles, France. In fact, the cynicism may have begun to manifest itself on that very day. Certainly the irony of Armistice Day could not have been lost on the American and Canadian soldiers who spent that day fighting for their lives against attacking Bolsheviks in the north Russian town of Toulgas. Their principal reason for being there, after all, had been to aid anti-Bolshevik Russian forces in regaining control of the government from the Communists, bring Russia back into the war on the Allied side and defeat Germany.