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100-Year-Old Recalls 1930s Traumas
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100-Year-Old Recalls 1930s Traumas

WWI veterans were attacked by the government

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Jim Buie
Sep 16, 2023
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My mother-in-law Carol Holliday at 100 loves to watch documentaries on the history of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s or WWII on YouTube. It has become an almost nightly ritual. While watching one called, “End of the American Dream,” about the Great Depression, she recalled her father taking her to the US Capitol, where World War I veterans camped out on th…

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