Pleasant Grove Review | 1935-02-01 | Page 2 | Ex-Service Man; Veteran

Ex-Service Man; Veteran c The terms ex-service man, veteran, are often loosely used interchangeably. interchange-ably. An ex-service man is one who las formerly been a soldier or sailor: , le may be young or old, and may , lave served a few months or have ( ;rown old in the service. Nothing in he term indicates age or length of service. Properly speaking, however, he term veteran, when applied to one who is or who was a soldier or sailor, denotes a man "long trained. ir who "has grown old in service": ;ence, it docs not properly apply t0 1 young man or to a man with a short jcord of service. It is from the Latin jteranus, meaning "old," or, when ;ed in a military sense, "an old tried Mier." Literary Digest,