1.0 link 195590 <![CDATA[AFS: World Peace Begins in High School]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-luce/afs-world-peace-begins-in_b_195590.html In World War I, there was a group of over 2,500 American men who did not join the U.S. Army.

U.S. volunteers who came to France in WWI did so starting with 1914, three years before their country entered the war and began a draft.

Many volunteered to staff ambulances with the American Field Service (AFS) - on the battlefields of France.

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They were busy. More than 15 million people died, with that many more...

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