"To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the entitlement to veterans' benefits of American who fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, and for other purposes."
This bill shows a large variety of 'celebrities' who were in favor of the war and who consented to everything happening in Spain. For exampple, Helen Keller and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas displayed their approval of the war and their regard for the veterans.
"They have earned the right to wear the label "Pre-mature Anti-fascists" with prode, and they have earned the right to be fully recognized a Veterans of World War II." - Ronald Dellums
Favorite quote in the bill:
"The dead do not need to rise. They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never be conquered for the earth endures forever, it will outlive all systems of tyranny. Those who have entered it honorably, and no men entered the earth more honorably than those who dies in Spain, have already achieved immortality." - Ernest Hemingway, The American Dead in Spain, Feb. 1947
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