1.   Returning soldiers found life less rosy than they had hoped.

2.   The ranks of the discontented were also swelled by returning soldiers who found things less rosy than they had hoped.

3.   Returning soldiers would expect higher wages than the Egyptian migrant workers hired during the war.

4.   Returning soldiers found the civil population too obsessed with their own hardships to try to understand what they were being subjected to at Verdun.

5.   And that provision actually gives returning soldiers greater rights than civilian employees, who can be fired for any lawful reason.

6.   As the returning Serb soldiers offered smiles and waves, Azemi and other villagers stared coldly at them.

7.   But at the end of the war, they were pushed out to make way for returning soldiers.

8.   Do you really want to find yourself in the same party with someone who still remembers the first time he spit and hit a returning Vietnam soldier?

9.   It was made, he said, from a Revolutionary War bayonet beaten into a tool for peaceful purposes by a returning soldier.

10.   Korea and Vietnam were messier conflicts with ambiguous endings that left returning soldiers forgotten, bitter or worse.