IF I GAVE YOU TEN guesses -- hell, if I gave you a hundred -- I doubt if you'd be able to identify what this picture shows. This much I'll tell you: this photo was taken in 1918 at Ft. Dix, New Jersey, where 25,000 doughboys (as American soldiers were called during World War I) posed in formation to form a human "blank blank." You fill in the blanks.
This is a detail from the larger photo, which I guarantee you will be able to identify by sight when I put it on the Daily DeLeon tomorrow. I'll give you a hint: the photo is prominently displayed at a public federal building at 5th and Chestnut Sts. in Philadelphia.
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