Memorial Day is a bad time for you to call “doughboys” World War II soldiers [The Peachtree Citizen Review, May 28].

Pershing had the doughboys [in World War I}, Eisenhower had the G.I.'s [in World War II].

Check Pershing's Doughboys web page.

Don Jones

Peachtree City

[Editor's note: Oops. Reader Jones is right on target, and we were wrong by a generation. Our apologies to our veterans in both wars.]

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