Thursday, May 29, 2008

More from DAV's "Bonus Marches & False Economies"

Adapted from their May / June magazine issue, Chapter 4, The Most Costly War.

"By September 2, 1945, when the Japanese signed the Instrument of Surrender on the USS Missouri, 16.3 million Americans had served in World War II; 407,000 had died; and 671,000 had come home wounded.

"With 105,000 disabled veterans in its ranks, the DAV reached record membership in 1946, and the National Convention elected Lloyd R. Oleson as the first World War II....."

Give 'em Hell President Harry Truman weighs in!

Unlike FDR, Truman had himself been in a real - deal war zone, as a Horse Artillery officer in World War I.

Here's his sound bite:

"The debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid."

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