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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: The V *F* W
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 16:48:24 EDT
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Anyone know why the emphasis on *Foreign* in the name of the organization

"The Veterans of Foreign Wars"?

Was it so named, maybe back in the late 1800's or whenever it was formed 
(after the Spanish-American war, mayhap?), to specifically *exclude*
Civil War or Indian campaign veterans, or perhaps they had their own
organizations and this newly-formed one was trying to distinguish itself
from them?

Will Martin

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