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Languages : en
Pages : 430
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St. Louis, Missouri. Sept. 23-26, 1935
Author: Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3264
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The Wages of War
Author: Richard SeveroPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504031512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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A disturbing chronicle of the US government’s mistreatment of American soldiers and veterans throughout history, with a new introduction by Charles Sheehan-Miles Time and time again, the sacrifices made by veterans and their families have been repaid with scorn, discrimination, lack of health services, scant financial compensation, and other indignities. This injustice dates back as far as the American Revolution, when troops came home penniless and without prospects for work, yet had to wait decades before the government paid them the wages they were owed. When soldiers returned from the Cuban campaign after the Spanish-American War, they were riddled with malaria, typhoid, yellow fever, and dysentery—but the government refused to acknowledge their illnesses, and finally dumped them in a makeshift tent city on Long Island, where they were left to starve and die. Perhaps the most infamous case of disgraceful behavior toward veterans happened after the Vietnam War, when soldiers were forced to battle bureaucrats and lawyers, and suffer media slander, because they asked the government and chemical industry to help them cope with the toxic aftereffects of Agent Orange. In The Wages of War, authors Richard Severo and Lewis Milford not only uncover new information about the controversial use of this defoliant in Vietnam and the subsequent class action suit brought against its manufacturers, but also present fresh information on every war in US history. The result is exhaustive proof that—save for the treatment of soldiers in the aftermath of World War II—the government’s behavior towards American servicemen has been more like that of “a slippery insurance company than a policy rooted in the idea of justice and fair reward.”
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
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Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3260
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Biographic Register of the Department of State
Author: United States Department of StatePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1076
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Index of Trademarks Issued from the United States Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent OfficePublisher:
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Category : Trademarks
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent OfficePublisher:
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Daily River Stages at River Gage Stations on the Principal Rivers of the United States
Author: United States. Weather BureauPublisher:
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Category : Stream measurements
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Daily River Stages at River Gage Stations on the Principal Rivers of the United States
Author: Biographic Register
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 532
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