It seems a lot of other people have forgotten about him or never even heard of him before. WMRA: I'll be honest with you, Jonathan, this is the first time I've ever heard of Smedley Butler and it seems that I'm not alone. So he was a lot of different things to a lot of different people different in different points in history. But then, spent the last 10 years of life sort of repenting for what he had done and he became an anti-war, anti-imperialist activist who among other things blew the whistle on what he alleged was a fascist coup to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt in 1934. He was twice the recipient of the Medal of Honor and participated in every overseas invasion/occupation that the United States fought with one or two very small exceptions from 1898 until the 1930s. Katz: He was a marine who joined the Corps in 1898 and passed through all the ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major General.
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