On this day 100 years ago, April 6, 1917, the United States Congress voted to declare war on Germany.The conflict that would come to be known as the Great War or World War I had raged in Europe for almost three years, but the U.S. had remained neutral. The nation was provoked to war in 1917 by German submarine attacks against merchant ships heading to Britain and France, as well as a revelation that Germany offered to help Mexico reclaim territory in the southern U.S. in exchange for an alliance.By the end of the war in 1918, more than 16 million soldiers and civilians had died.Among the American soldiers who gave their lives during World War I were 31 service members from Warren County. Their names will be among those inscribed on a planned memorial to all Warren County veterans who died in a time of war.For more information about the memorial or how to contribute, visit the website TributeToVeteransMemorial.org.Below are the names of those Warren County service members who died in World War I.

US Army

Harry H. Brueggenjohann

Albert W. Determann

Hugo Dorsch            

Orgain W. Duebbert

Allie B. Dyke

George A. Ellerbruch

Christopher C. Garrett

Fred Gruber

Fritz H. Hackman

Emil Heggemann

Carl B. Hudson

John W. Humphrey

Otis L. Jones

Clarence W. Lohman

Horace G. Means

John P. Millam

Otto H. Paustian     

Louis R. Schwerdt

Irwin E. Silvy

Ira L. Stoltz

Joesph C. Thurman

John F. Truemper

Arthur B. Vieth

Hugo J. Witthaus

Charles W. Wortman

US Marine Corps

Paul Humber

George W. Koehler

Oscar A. Vollrath 

US Navy

Wesley H. Harbaum

Charles A. McVey

Lester W. MiddlekampAmerican Flag