you did not -- there's that old tom leahr joke we beat the germans and they have hardly bothered us sense. they have bothered us since. more important for americans was how the war ended at home. number one -- we sometimes forget this, on the tail end of the war came the worst epidemic in modern history, the great flue epidemic which killed over 20 million people world war wide. quite a number of american. that was just sort of a side car. number two, the american economy had ramped up to produce armaments for the war. ironically, most of the armaments never got in the war. when we went to the war in april of 1917, we used mostly european weapons. for example, we started building airplanes, the same -- not a single one got the war. not a single american tank got to the war. the hand grenades we bought from the british. by that point, 1918 we had the largest armament industry in the world. almost immediately after the armtists and the end of the war, the government started canceling contracts. when i say canceling, i mean, just like this. without warning, they pulled them. factories were l