Excerpt from The Call to the Colors She smiled proudly at him, and with another hug, Jimmy was out of the house and gone. It was going to be lonesome without her boy; she had the means to live easily enough, and hosts of friends in Army circles and out, but Jimmy was all the family now. And she knew they would be surprised that she had allowed him to enlist some months under the age limit. The very next day in came Uncle Lawrence fuming about the news. 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.