The Saturday Evening Post featured a Rockwell portrayal of a stout looking American veteran marching with admiring young boys. The hyper patriotic and hyper romantic portrayal doesn't portray the veteran as bemused by the display, which in reality would have been the likely reaction.
The stout child in the lead is wearing the type of service coat that the Boy Scouts still did at that time.
It's odd to think that in any such real world crowd, the children depicted here would have had a fairly high chance of seeing service in the Second World War.
While soldiers were returning, newspapers all over the country carried the frightening news that Germany seemed to be descending again into full scale civil war.
That sudden revived slide was caused by the assassination of Kurt Eisner in Bavaria, after which radical socialist and communists took action to seize the Bavarian government, only lately a monarchy, and proclaim it to be a "Soviet" republic that following April. Eisner was a socialist himself but was in the process of resigning his role in government when a right wing assassin took his life. Government in Bavaria became chaotic as a result and for approximately one month the large important German state was ruled by a communist cabal in Munich until the Freikorps put it down in their characteristic fashion.
A communist revolution in Bavaria was always a highly odd thing in the first place as the state itself was quit conservative and heavily Catholic. Munich was the exception, and would prove the exception again as the center of Nazi activity only shortly later.
At the same time as it appeared an internecine war was about to break out in Germany, the League of Nations was gaining real opposition in the United States.
Wyomingites also read that the legislature was wrapping up, which is usually a time of relief for all. The legislature did not get around to approving a Carey County and therefore Governor Carey didn't have the opportunity to sign into law a county named after his father. Indeed, such a county would never come into being.
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