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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 21 > Walter Kerwin instrumental in ending draft

Walter Kerwin instrumental in ending draft

By Matt Schudel / The Bulletin
July 21, 2008

WASHINGTON — Walter Kerwin Jr., a retired four-star general who was the Army’s second-highest-ranking officer in the mid-1970s and an architect of the all-volunteer Army, died July 11 of respiratory failure at Washington House, a nursing facility in Alexandria, Va. He was 91....

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