Lex Anteinternet: March 1, 1919. The Saturday Evening Posts does what we do here, New Canteen on the docks in France, Protests in Korea, Remounts in northern Wyoming.

Friday, March 1, 2019

March 1, 1919. The Saturday Evening Posts does what we do here, New Canteen on the docks in France, Protests in Korea, Remounts in northern Wyoming.

Hmmm. . . that article by Henry Watterson is what we do a lot of here. . .

The Army Corps of Engineers built a new canteen on the docks for the Red Cross, to service soldiers and sailors in the task of transporting the Army home. The Major General in the photograph is wearing a trench coat, an item newly introduced to the world by the British, and regulation riding boots.

This appears to show a group of sailors in the canteen.

Inspired by Wilson's Fourteen Points, students in Korea presented a declaration of independence to the world demanding that the Japanese end their murky role in Korea. The Japanese violently put it down. Due to this event, this day is regarded as Korean Independence Day, although the goal, a free, united, Korea has never been obtained.

The Army was just entering the breeding of horses at this time, reflecting concern over the decline in the quality and number of remounts in the civilian market. A Remount breeding program in fact got started near Sheridan (which is near Buffalo) after World War One, but it bread riding mounts, not draft mounts, in so far as I'm aware.

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