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[...] men inculcated with a particular view of the world will not, Fussell tells us, surrender that view without a struggle. [...] the Tommies of the Great War used their old emotional-intellectual vocabulary to make sense of and attenuate the horrors they encountered. Why read an aging study of a war almost a hundred years gone by?
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To the joy of their families, the "boys" who fought in the Great War began returning home in 1919, and front page of the Van Nuys News returned its focus to local issues. The predecessor of the Los Angeles Daily News continued its regular updates on the building boom as new residents sought opportunities - also duly reported - in the sprawling San Fernando Valley. National news occasionally crept onto the front page of the broadsheet, such as the ratification of the 18th Amendment that mandated Prohibition. Inexplicably, ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 giving women the right to vote warranted nary a mention.
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SYDNEY - The last known combat veteran of World War I was defiant of the tolls of time, a centenarian who swam in the sea, twirled across dance floors, and published his first book at 108. He also refused to submit to his place in history, becoming a pacifist who wouldn't march in parades commemorating wars like the one that made him famous. Claude Stanley Choules, a man of contradictions, humble spirit and wry humor, died in a Western Australia nursing home Thursday at age 110. And though his accomplishments were many - including a 41- year military career that spanned two world wars - the man known as "Chuckles" to his comrades in the Australian Navy was happiest being known as a dedicated family man.
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In a few years, we will observe the centenary of the beginning of the Great War; several generations have passed since then, but thanks to the sophisticated development of sound recording and cinematography, starting around the turn of the twentieth century, we can now see moving pictures of actual events taking place during World War I, and we can hear the same recordings or at least authentic echoes of the songs that provided courage to those heading east across the Atlantic or southward across the English Channel, offering a moment of diversion for those in the trenches and some comfort to the lonely and bereaved left at home.3 During the administration of President Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921), who reluctantly gave the orders for America's entry into the war in April of 1917, our citi...
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Helen Crumpacker and her mother-in-law cooked dinner for the German prisoners of war who had labored that day in the Crumpacker Bros. orchards near Bonsack. In POW camps in Salem, Catawba and across the nation, many Germans lingered for a time in the United States even after Allied forces in World War II declared victory in Europe in May 1945.
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By PAUL DUGGAN THE WASHINGTON POST
