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I remember reading about how surprised the event organizers were by the youthful appetites of the veterans at one of the reunions (I can't remember if it was the 1913 or 1938 reunion or both), they were good eaters. At one of the events, they drank all the whiskey provided twice over. In a live radio interview from '38, one veteran being questioned went off on the following tangent: (from memory) "I want to talk about women's skirts. They are too short. Why, when I was at the sporting house last week ... " (cut off by interviewer).

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Veterans of the American Civil War, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

I'm an Admin for a group called The Mess Tent, and we'd love to have this photo added to the group!

This photo ran in the Great Falls daily tribune., May 04, 1919, Image 21 with the caption: "Yankees at "chow" around rolling kitchen near Vladivostok ... The best part of the day to the Yankees in the frozen wilds of Russia and Siberia is meal time. Rolling kitchens now in use with the IU. S. troops take steaming hot food right to the men on duty. The photo shows men in company A, Thirty-first infantry, at "chow" during a march." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024808/1919-05-04/ed-... PS: The same photo with the same caption was in The Lake County times., April 26, 1919, SATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION, Page 7 already chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86058242/1919-04-26/ed-...