Veterans Affairs

The [US] Army’s Message to Returning World War I Troops? Behave Yourselves .

“Ex-soldiers not cared for, ex-soldiers out of work, in insane asylums, in jails, walking the streets,” he wrote. After looking more into how some of his fellow veterans were faring, Hayden found that there were “thousands upon thousands of these men in straitened circumstances, in poverty. There were more thousands, who needed hospital attention, who were not getting it.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/magazine/world-war-i-veterans-treatment.html .