Woodrow Wilson would have been the first United States president during World War I. Mr. Wilson served as the 28th president from 1913-1921. :)
I'm not sure, but personally I would say that the men are exhausted and are weak and tired, but they love their country and they're making sure their flag stand proud and tall.
In general the highest social class in the new world were the europeans, while indians and slaves were at the bottom and the middle was occupied by the mixed races.
In 1877, Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican governments collapsed, thereby ending Reconstruction. Over the next three decades, the civil rights that blacks had been promised during Reconstruction crumbled under white rule in the south.