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When I was a kid, anybody in our little cornbelt town who had been to Europe was a local celebrity. We had quite a few veterans of the First World War among our neighbors, but hardly any of them had made it overseas. The U.S. got into that war in April of 1917 and it was all over by November of the following year, leaving tens of thousands of American recruits still cooling their heels at stateside training camps.  My dad was one of those who got to France but all he could remember of it was being seasick going there and getting gassed by the Germans once he got there. His impression of Europe consisted almost entirely of trenches and barbed wire. Until the middle of the 20th century, it wasn't quick or easy to cross either ocean. If you wanted to frolic in the Swiss Alps it meant almost two weeks at sea for the round trip plus however long it took to catch trains along the way. Ordinary people couldn't afford the time or the expense. If you weren't an Astor or a Vanderbilt...
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