Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fatigue uniform is part of the Army dress, just the same as any other uniform, and the wearing of it makes a man no less a soldier...
After 134 years, the U.S. paid the last installment on the bill for the War of 1812. Esther Ann Hill Morgan, 88, daughter of a soldier who fought in the Battle of New Orleans, and the last U.S. citizen eligible for an 1812 pension, died last week in Independence...
Leaning back against the Secretary's big desk, with shoulders hunched, Sandhurst-educated Winston Churchill talked easily, as one old soldier to his fellows. From the lines of a veteran who had served with his ancestor.* John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, he recalled an old, soldierly axiom...
...last shred of ancient grandeur dispelled by Yankee ironclads at Santiago and Manila Bay, when Francisco Franco first took notice of his star. By family and caste tradition he should have been a sailor. Because Spain was too poor to afford any more naval officers, he became a soldier. From seaside El Ferrel, in his native Galicia, he went to the Alcazar military school in Toledo. In 1912, at 20, he was a slender, shiny-eyed captain getting his baptism of fire and helping carve a new Spanish empire in Morocco...
...that the paper's chief value had been its staffers' freedom to write like newsmen, unshackled by the Article of War (No. 63) that forbids disrespect to superiors. Lee set him straight: "Any man in my command, sir, who wears the uniform is first of all a soldier." He thought the matter would settle itself, anyway, since the Army presently would be "a career Army rather than [a] democratic Army...