Albert Jay Cook Quotes


Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken


Context

If American fighting men were not killed in the war, they returned to the United States at Hoboken, New Jersey where the troop ships debarked. If the solder didn’t return through Hoboken the assumption was his destination was one of the other two alternatives. It is believed that Cook did not originate the phrase which had circulated in the oral military scuttlebutt of the day. He was the first to write it.


Citations

Albert Jay Cook, *, Poet and Writer, Title of World War I poem published in Stars and Stripes

Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations

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