Over There: George M. Cohan Fights in the Great War

From a 1940 US Communist anti-war pamphlet (during the period of the Nazi-Soviet pact):

"The man who wrote Over There, and promised The Yanks Are Coming, stayed over here. Progressive trade unionists of the country today amend this line to say decisively: The Yanks Are NOT Coming!" Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier--for Wall Street (New York: Workers Library Publishers 1940), p. 4. https://utdr.utoledo.edu/cgi/viewco...5R&httpsredir=1&article=2382&context=ur-87-68

AHC: George M. Cohan, not quite 39 when the US declares war, does indeed serve Over There. (Hey, Monk Eastman was three years older, and he served. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk_Eastman)

Maybe in this ATL Cohan actually wins a Medal of Honor for his combat service! (To be distinguished from the medal he was awarded in 1936 in OTL http://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/36566 One sour commenter writes that "Cohan had the chutzpah to rationalize that, since it was a medal that honored him and that it came from Congress, it must be a Congressional Medal of Honor..." http://www.lylefrancispadilla.com/cohan.html)
 
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