Excerpt from The Real Front
All those who have come under the star-shells of the firing-line, have touched the point where life is epic. Where the brazier fires burn at night along the shivering trenches existence may be bare of comfort, but it rings with loud adventure.
Unto our children"s children, and beyond, the grayest lives lived in those trenches shall shine forth with colors of romance. It is well to read history in an arm-chair, but it is far better to make history under the blue. It was grand to live in the spacious days of good Queen Bess. But we need envy no past age, who have helped to make the history of this present.
Beyond the objective happenings, the author has tried to bring home some of those subjective facts, that will remain, when mere events have been forgotten.
The Real Front is a place where one is always face to face with the profundities of life. I was talking with a gray-bearded gentleman the other day and, speaking of a certain event, I said, "Of course, sir, only old men like yourself and I can appreciate such things."
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