Over Here, Over There: Iowa and the First World War October 5, 2010

'Over Here, Over There: Iowa and the First World War's" is on display again in the Iowa Resource Room at the State Historical Museum.. 'Over Here, Over There' came 91 years after the first Iowan, and perhaps the first American serviceman, Merle D. Hay (1896-1917), died in World War I and 90 years after hostilities between the Allies and Germany ceased at 11 a.m. Nov. 11, 1918. World War I began in 1914 and officially ended in 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles. The exhibit includes a blood-stained jacket worn by Colfax native and aviator/writer James Norman Hall when his plane was shot down; Herbert Hoover's heroic food relief efforts during the war; a profile of Marion Crandell of Cedar Rapids, a nurse and the first American woman killed in the war; a collection World War I weapons and more than 30 American, French, British and German propaganda posters.