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Dr. Jerome Dolan 👨‍⚕️ complains how teetotalers lobbied to eliminate US Army 's beer ration during the Korean War 🍻. The unit chaplain Emil Kapaun tried to keep up morale by handing out apples instead 🍎 Eventually, Schlitz & Blatz stepped up donated beer to the deployed troops "But then the beer suddenly stopped and the rumor was that [someone] pressured President Truman to protect these American soldiers from the demon rum. Morale fell, but here came Father Kapaun again, the kid from Kansas, & he came with his pockets bulging with apples. It wasn't the same as beer, but it was a welcome change from the dirty-mouth taste of C-rations mixed with too many cigarettes 🚬 And Father always carried 2 canteens of water 🥤 so that you could wash things down" https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16291592 https://www.dvidshub.net/image/901308/kapaun-carries-soldier https://www.military.com/history/when-army-stopped-serving-beer-american-beer-barons-bought-round-freedom.html https://www.jsonline.com/story/life/green-sheet/2017/02/14/our-back-pages-when-schlitz-blatz-bought-korean-war-soldiers-brew-12-million-them/97668434/

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