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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1918
Page
8
Theodore Roosevelt honors officers and soldiers kept from frontline service. He laments Maj Willard Straught and others who faced impossible choices, noting their duty and sacrifice. Roosevelt praises Woolan for advocating military readiness and training vast numbers of troops despite discrimination and misfortune.
The piece honors soldiers’ equal pride in their service, noting those without frontline glory still shared in the war’s hardships and deserve admiration. It also notes a 1918 fuel order abolishing industrial oil priorities, placing natural gas consumers on an equal basis while domestic priorities remain.
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