Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...among a people who speak a strange tongue, whose sympathies are not with them and possibly never can be, so great is the difference between the Asiatic and the citizen of the United States. Homesickness, which the medical authorities have dignified as a distinct disease under the title of nostalgia, must affect hundreds of the soldiers in its most acute form. If the people at home will send the boys something to remind them that they are not forgotten, something to impress them with the hearty sympathy of the American people for the men who are fighting their battles, they...