On May 21, 1941, more than six months before the US entry into the war, the SS Robin Moor became the first US flagged merchant ship to be sunk by a German U-boat, all part of the long path towards US entry into the largest war in human history.
The history of cotton clothing has followed an interesting path, including a period of a few decades in the United States when cotton represented ingenuity, resilience, and patriotism itself.