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23128 - "Welcome!" French Village Man Greeting U.S. Infantry Doughboy, 1918 First Legion-Stalingrad Russians When the American Civil WarThe Great War marked the first time in history the United States sent soldiers abroad to defend foreign soil. The French ecstatically welcomed the first wave of soldiers. Vive lAmerique! came the shouts at the edge of a Boulogne pier as Pershing steamed into port. In an emotional arrival ceremony at the Marquis de Lafayettes tomb, Col. Charles E. Stanton declared to the crowd, Lafayette, we are here! suggesting Americans had come to repay an old debt