Excerpt from Flashes From the Front
This great war is teaching new things every day. War on such a scale affords unprecedented opportunity for originality. While methods change, human character remains, and other things being equal, character will decide the last battle.
This war found us as a nation nakedly unprepared, but our people had the stamina, the moral sense, the instinct for the light and the right. It is a fine thing to us soldiers in the service to look toward home and see a mighty people responding to the call of idealism, turning nobly toward duty in the splendid spirit expressed in the phrase the "utmost for the highest." We may make mistakes here and there in this detail or in that, but we have the practical mind, and with each new experience we shall move to a higher level of excellence.
Of the human material that America is sending to this war I can speak with exactness. It is the best, and with enough of such material there can be no doubt of America"s showing. I have always had only one opinion of American soldiers, and that opinion has been more than confirmed in France.
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