The Last Days of InnocenceBy: Meirion Harries, Susie Harries In the Spring of 1917, America went to war with an innocent determination to re make the world. When the smoke lifted in November 1918, the nation emerged with its sense of purpose shattered, its certainties shaken, and with a new and unwelcome self knowledge. Seventy five thousand American soldiers were dead, and back home a Pandora's box of suspicions and surveillance had been opened. The Last Days of Innocence