Zachary Taylor and Franklin Piece were Mexican War generals and later became President. Ulysses Grant was a lower-level officer serving in this war and later achieved fame and the Presidency because of his Civil War service.
American Veterans went to war to defend their country which had been attacked.
There were several presidents that went to Nelson Mandela's funeral. President Obama from the US attended.
John Adam, Thomas Jefferson, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford, and George Bush were all Vice Presidents who went on to become the US President.
No US presidents ever went to Syracuse U.
The "American Legion" was created by WWI veterans in about 1919. The "Veterans of Foreign Wars" (VFW) was created by Spanish-American Veterans of 1898, and is our oldest Veterans group. The "American Veterans" (AMVETS) was created by WWII veterans. Originally, these veteran groups were open to only their own veterans, but as time went by they opened to all "qualified" veterans.
Probably after the wall went up in about 1982.
Obama went to Canada.
JFK went to Choate
George HW Bush
Alfred King, a store owner from Kansas wanted to expand Armistice Day beyond veterans of World War I to celebrate all veterans. In 1953, He campaigned locally and then, with the help of his Congressional Representative, a bill declaring it a holiday went through Congress and was signed into law on May 26, 1954 by President Dwight David Eisenhower.
no neither have I HERP
Yes, they are poached. Poaching of the Mexican Wolf is the reason they went extinct in the wild.