Following the ceremonies, President Roosevelt returned to the White House to confer with Cabinet members on national problems, including plans to ask the next session of Con-Cress for vast defence appropriations.
General John J. Pershing, leader of American force the World War, urged "prompt and vigorous action" for the strengthening of the nation's defences, He warned the gathered World War veterans that the current rid situation "is as menacing as any critical time in history and demands mediate and vigorous action on oni part lest there be visited upon us the recent experience of France and England."
Memorial Services were also held at the Wilson Washington Cathedral.
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