Word: allmost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allmost Descureged." When Johnny Comes Marching Home is a timely history of homecomings from the U.S.'s three major wars : the Revolution, the Civil War, World War I. Author Dixon Wecter (The Saga of American Society; The Hero in America}, professor of English at the University of California, has written a fascinating study of the profound tension and misunderstanding between civilians and veterans, of civilians' short memories and seeming ingratitude, of veterans' increasing success in rewarding themselves through their organized political strength...
...least uprooted. As a soldier he had usually gone home for spring plowing, harvesting and emergencies. But when X-day dawned the veteran found himself in straits common to millions of veterans throughout history. Wrote one of them: "I com down by the markett and sits down all alone allmost Descureged and begun to think over how I had ben in the army, what ill success I had met with there . . . and now that I could not get into any besness . . . you may well think how I felt." Like most of his fellows he began by selling his paper bonus...
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