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in the United States, day (November 11) honouring veterans of the armed forces and those killed in the country's wars. The observance originated in 1921 as Armistice Day with the burial of the body ...
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
monument in Washington, D.C., honouring members of the U.S. armed forces who served and died in the Vietnam War (1955-75). The memorial, located near the western end of the Mall, is a black granite ...
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American organization created in 1913-14 by the merger of three national war-veteran societies that were founded in 1899, shortly after the Spanish-American War. The American Veterans of Foreign ...
American Legion
organization of U.S. war veterans. It was founded in Paris on March 15-17, 1919, by delegates from combat and service units of the American Expeditionary Force. A national charter was granted to it ...
Gulf War syndrome
cluster of illnesses in veterans of the Persian Gulf War (1990-91) characterized not by any definable medical condition or diagnostic test but by variable and nonspecific symptoms such as fatigue, ...
Hunzvi, Chenjerai
Zimbabwean political activist (b. Oct. 23, 1949, Chikomba district, Southern Rhodesia-d. June 4, 2001, Harare, Zimb.), as chairman (from 1996) of the War Veterans' Association of Zimbabwe, built that ...
Marius, Gaius
Roman general and politician, consul seven times (107, 104-100, 86 BC), who was the first Roman to illustrate the political support that a successful general could derive from the votes of his old ...
New Orleans
New Orleans has become a medical and educational centre. The Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans is the teaching hospital for two adjacent institutions, the Tulane and the Louisiana State ...
Architecture and Civil Engineering
A Korean War Veterans' Memorial opened on the Mall in Washington, D.C. It included a wall of dark granite, on which were engraved ghostlike images of soldiers and other veterans. The European Court ...
Bonus Army
(1932), gathering of 12,000 to 15,000 World War I veterans who, with their wives and children, converged on Washington, D.C., demanding immediate bonus payment for wartime services, to alleviate the ...
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