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Everyone is impatient to hear Roosevelt’s speech, which is supposed to be today. People are pointing out it was the 27th May 1917 that the United States declared war on Germany, and they hope they will do so again on the same day. I have no textbook to check the date but, even if it’s correct, I don’t think that America will enter the war today. I hope I’m proved wrong. Everyone is teasing me for my pessimism. But, sadly, they usually have to admit that I was right. And that kills me…