Excerpt from Funny Stories: Told by the Soldiers; Pranks, Jokes and Laughable Affairs of Our Boys and Their Allies in the Great War; The Victories in Their Cheerful Moments
Now that the dread of awful war has passed with the coming of welcome peace, we can turn our minds with renewed cheerfulness to the merry side of the great worlds conflict and enjoy with our boys the funny things they saw and did and said while over there.
The comedy side of the war has been quickly seen and readily interpreted by the worlds great writers, as well as by the very officers and men, in all departments of the service, who themselves participated in both the serious and the frivolous affairs of warfare as developed day by day.
It is the humorous experiences of which these warriors and writers have told us in speech and print that we have sought to gather into one volume for the edification and delectation of a humor-loving public. Enough and too much has been told of the horrors of war. To hear the pleasanter side, the merry doings of our soldiers and their allies, the victorious hosts of freedom, is a welcome relief to war-weary hearts, freed now, and forever, from the dire dread of the awfulness of modern laughter. So this collection of funny stories has come into being; its mission to cheer us all with the merry tales told by and about our conquering soldiers.
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