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Sure, we're proud of the Minutemen in the Revolution; we're relieved that the Civil War was able to heal the awful internal strife that had divided our country; we note that the Spanish-American War marked the emergence of American power and leadership in the world (despite our misgivings about its imperialist implications); and we more keenly sense the brute horror but ultimate triumph of justice and order in the two world wars. Veterans Day conjures up all of these recollections about America's military heritage. Yet something is lacking and terribly wrong today...
...discovered that a German spy was living in the Taft Hotel, and the bureau wondered where the information had come from). "Just wait'll I tell those bastards at school," said Ralph, who had been heckled because his father, being a Hearstman, was held responsible for starting the Spanish-American War. The bastards were more impressed by Paul's Pulitzer Prize...
...knifing his guard and lived to greatly approve of the Radical Republicans and American expansion. He named his son Seward Alaska Bell after that Secretary of State and his purchase of territory from the Russians, and died in 1902, after twice being turned down for enlistment in the Spanish-American...
...Guam (pop. 100,000), a 209-sq.-mi. island 1,500 miles north of New Guinea, taken as a prize of the Spanish-American War. It has a nonvoting representative in Congress...
...thoroughly in diplomacy, has set itself up as a kind of fourth branch of the U.S. Government. But television governs nothing, forms no diplomatic policies, in fact had a lot less to do with the Sadat visit than William Randolph Hearst's newspapers had to do with the Spanish-American War. No doubt its technology has changed society; technology often does. It has been argued that the developing use of the stirrup, which enabled a rider to carry a lance, created the system of land payments to knights and hence created the entire system of feudalism. Television can draw...