By CHARLES D. ALLEN Retired Army Col. Charles D. Allen is the professor of leadership and cultural studies at the ArmyWarCollege. In the summer of 1932, amid the Great Depression, several thousand veterans of World War I gathered in the nation’s capital to express their discontent with theU.S.government. In particular, they came to protest the …
More than a hundred veterans attended a special farewell meeting on the 28th of december in The Hague to honour the Indonesian Ambassador to The Netherlands, Junus Effendi Habibie who maintains a special relation with the Dutch veterans who were active in Indonesia during the struggle for independence. Mr. J.E. Habibie is the first Indonesian …