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HONORING VETERANS

An End of War?

Phil Johnson
Justice, Texas Supreme Court, Retired
Captain, USAF 1965-72

ecently, my wife Carla and I were in to as “the war to end all wars.” Almost five
Kansas City, MO where we visited million Americans served in the armed forces
Rthe National World War I Museum. during WWI; approximately 117,000 of those
The museum is a reminder of how disastrous were killed in combat; and many thousands
that war was for the countries where the more suffered permanent physical and mental
fighting occurred; it was a personal disaster injuries.
for individual citizens and a physical disaster
for the many towns and cities destroyed in the But it was soon clear that, as horrific as that
battles. More broadly, it took a personal and War was, it was not the war to end all wars.
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economic toll on people around the world, Armed conflict among nations began again
regardless of where they lived. The War was in the late 1920s and spread during the 1930s.
thought to have been so terrible and to have Despite the United States’ attempts to remain
caused so much misery that it was referred neutral, it became involved in the new conflict