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...TIME, June 25, you say that Pfc. Willie Thompson was the first Negro since the Spanish-American War to win the Congressional Medal of Honor...
Universal Training. In Palmetto, Fla., 82-year-old Samuel Sample, who was rejected by the Army in the Spanish-American War because he was underweight, in World War I because he was overage, was ordered by a Tampa draft board to report for induction as a draft delinquent...
...announced the names of eleven more heroes of the Korean war, who had received posthumous awards of the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor beyond the call of duty. Among them was Pfc. Willie Thompson, the first Negro to win the nation's highest military honor since the Spanish-American...
...race as the Republican candidate for mayor of New York, to serve successively as U.S. civil service commissioner and New York police commissioner, to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy ("The Secretary is away, and I am having immense fun running the Navy"), to go to Cuba in the Spanish-American War and lead the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill ("By the way, I then killed a Spaniard myself with the pistol . . . which was raked up from the Maine"), to return to the U.S. as a military hero and, finally, at the ripe...
Leonard Wood joined the Army in 1885 as a contract surgeon after graduating from Harvard Medical School, became a cavalry colonel in the Spanish-American War, later rose to be the Army's Chief of Staff (1910-14). A longtime outspoken advocate of preparedness, Wood was frequently embroiled with his superiors. In 1917, he went to France as an observer; on his return home, he was invited to appear before the Senate Military Affairs Committee. He used the occasion to denounce the Army's ordnance bureau and supply system and to charge Secretary of War Newton D. Baker...