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Article: SPANISH CIVIL WAR VETS LOOK AHEAD.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- May 3, 2007
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Byline: AMY GOODMAN SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
Clarence Kailin is 92 years old. He recently traveled to New York City to attend the annual reunion of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. The brigade was originally made up of roughly 3,000 U.S. citizens who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War, which raged from 1936 to 1939.
Seventy years later, Kailin recalled his reasons for leaving the comfort of Madison, Wis., to volunteer to fight in defense of Spain's democratically elected government against a military coup led by Gen. Francisco Franco, backed by Adolf Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini: "It was fighting against Italian ...