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Never before in U.S. history have veterans been so speedily assured of postwar rewards. At the close of the Civil War, Union soldiers were given $50 if they had served two years, $100 for three or more years. Until 1920 Spanish-American veterans had to be content with nothing but a campaign ribbon and a pat on the back from Teddy Roosevelt. Men demobilized from the A.E.F. were handed $60 in cash by the Federal Government for a new suit or other immediate needs...
...paper boy to waiting on tables at Alma College, to $150,000-a-year general manager of 27 Hearst newspapers in 1928, and then to publisher-owner of the huge (412,148 circ.) Chicago Daily News in 1931. The Rooseveltian half of his life began in the Spanish-American War, when young Knox got a bullet hole through his hat and a "Bully!" from Teddy for his service in the Rough Riders...
...course, Tom did well at his books. Otherwise he failed to distinguish himself much. He acquired a couple of nicknames: "Double-Barrel Shotgun" Connally, a tribute to his skinniness, and "Talking Tom," a tribute to his wagging tongue. His college days were briefly interrupted when he volunteered for the Spanish-American War; but his regiment saw no action. Settling down to law practice in Marlin (pop. then: 3,092) after the war, he found business none too brisk. Soon he ran for the legislature. After two terms he went back to the law again for twelve years, with a four...
...revolutionists; in '95 shipwrecked off South Africa; in '95 severely wounded on Jameson's raid from Mafeking into the Transvaal; the next year sole survivor, again severely wounded, of a surveying expedition for Cecil Rhodes's Capetown-to-Cairo telegraph line. Lyon fought in the Spanish-American War, served as a sergeant major through the Philippine Insurrection. Home from the wars, he prospected in the Klondike, worked on the Panama Canal, in 1915 settled down as a Connecticut power official. At 61 the old campaigner learned to fly, in '42 was on active anti submarine...
Earl was teaching school when the Spanish-American War came. He enlisted with Company F, 51st Iowa Volunteers. Typhoid fever laid him low in The Presidio's hospital, San Francisco, and he missed the boat when his outfit sailed for Manila. By the time his temperature had dropped, the war was over...