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Identifier: 14031070R.nlm.nih.gov
Title: The disabled soldier
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: McMurtrie, Douglas C. (Douglas Crawford), 1888-1944, author
Subjects: Veterans Disabled Persons Rehabilitation, Vocational Amputees Artificial Limbs World War I
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d mybeing obliged to beg, I dont know any reason, thankHeaven, that I have to complain. Blessed be God, Ienjoy good health, and will forever love liberty and OldEngland. Liberty, property, and Old England, Huzza! Early in the nineteenth century, Parliament passedan act granting pensions to all soldiers who were inva-lided, disabled, or discharged after from fourteen totwenty-one years of service. Since then, and especiallyafter the South African War, the system has been gen-erously extended, including relief not only for disabledand retired soldiers, but also for the widows and orphansof those dying in service. It is pleasant to be able to say that no nation hashitherto been so generous in its provision for the disabledsoldier as the United States of America. In fact, thefirst relief measures were undertaken very shortly afterthe founding of the early colonies. Plymouth Colony wasfounded in 1620; it passed its first pension legislationin 1636, providing that any man who should be sent
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A Procession of Cripples, by Jerome Bosch, a fifteenthcentury painter who had a predilectionfor taking cripples as his subjects J JUavrrM jr,,/j>. The Disabled Sailor Approaches Oliver Goldsmith.A Reproduction from a plate in an 1809edition of Goldsmiths works RECORD OF INJUSTICE 23 forth as a soldier and return maimed was to be main-tained competently the rest of his life. Eight years later,the Virginia Assembly passed a disability pension law,and not long thereafter another law creating a systemof relief for the needy dependents of any colonist killedin the service of the colony. Long before the Revolution, other colonies had takensimilar measures, Rhode Island not only providing pen-sions for the disabled and for the dependents of thosekilled in service, but also decreeing that every woundedsoldier was entitled to medical care at the colonys ex-pense until cured. A few months after the beginning of the Revolutionthe Continental Congress declared that half-pay wouldbe allowed eve

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