Excerpt from Stories of Americans in the World War These stories of Americans in the world war were first written by doers, see-ers and seers. Because each writer had a message of entertainment or inspiration, the original stories and poems could not be condensed without omitting valuable lines. Yet for an intermediate reader of practical length and desired variety, it was necessary to con dense, sometimes by omission, sometimes by rewriting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.