a big one was an plattsburg your, called the plattsburg movement and often the least college students of the day would spend their summers training to be military officers and many of them did become military officers and in fact after the war, the rotc as manila today traces its roots back to this platts berkman. >> so, was there grassroots movement to get into the war? was the war popular before the americans got into it? >> the war was popular with some people but i think one of the things most people forget about world war i is that it was very divisive both entering the war and how to fight the war after it starts and a lot of that division and contest has been forgotten over the years since then. >> where did your book, world war i and the making of the modern american citizen, come from? >> the book actually started from a puzzling group of people, so in a footnote of another book that fund reference to what were called slacker raids. lacquer was the slang term in world war i for draft dodgers, slacker raids were carried out by a group of volunteers, mostly middle-aged men, ove

why do they have these huge clinics in plattsburg, new york, and other border towns canadians stream care is so great in canada? i don't think so. >> james will be back in the next hour. we'll continue this conversation. bill bennett, thanks for joining us. good discussion. >>> collision over the hudson. police release tapes of those 911 calls from that deadly crash between a sightseeing helicopter and a small plane. >>> and a mistake by a translator overseas gives us some insight into hillary clinton's feelings. >>> let's check back with jack for "the cafferty file." jack? >> the question this hour, house speaker nancy pelosi, congressman stenni hoyer say protests against health care reform are un-american. are they? mike writes -- rita writes from florida -- ron in florida writes -- president obama was elected because of his agenda, which is the people's agenda. lynn in oklahoma city -- i'll tell you why. because she knows it's -- bev in new york -- none of them has read the plan as evidenced by how fast the euthanasia rumor got around. even the alaskan quitter was willing to repea