Excerpt from Home Then What?
One of the questions most frequently asked of me on my return from France in June, 1918, was "What is the American boy thinking about over there?" My stock answer to this was that any man who undertook to write a Baedeker of the Doughboy's Mind must in the very nature of things be a human Argus, with a million eyes, and every eye an X-ray optic at that, and a thousand hands, each hand holding a pen with a thousand nibs. There were two million of America's sons over there at that time, and while at a distance of fifty yards they all looked alike, and strode along with the same confident step, and seemed rather to be cogs in a great machine than separate entities, soldiering had not made them any the less individual, and whatever had been done to them by their training to reduce or to elevate them to a type, physically their minds, in so far as I was able to get at them, had not ceased to function in the good old independent fashion.
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