Scores of men suspected of disloyalty were tarred and feathered, and a handful were lynched. Several churches of pacifist sects were set ablaze. Americans who declined to buy Liberty Bonds (issued by the Treasury to finance the war) sometimes awoke to find their homes streaked with yellow paint. Even the most casual expression of doubt about the war could trigger a beating by a mob, and the humiliation of being made to kiss the flag in public.
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