The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines.
I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'
I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
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