Yea, it was not 3 cents but 39 cents per hour to be shot at and fight a war by draftees. I did not make the meme.
https://youtu.be/7uXQ6XenM3s
If you want to watch a 30 minute video of the most bizarre real life old west shootout.

Kill Bear (Mato Wicakte). Oglala Lakota. 1898. Photo by Frank A. Rinehart. Omaha, Nebraska.

U.S. Naval Institute Archive Photo of the Week: Navy recruits haul their duffle bags during Naval Recruit Training at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois, 1965.