Word: like
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...took the war to bring the sailor into his own. "I am surprised to find," said a kindly gentleman down in the Square to us the other day, "that your men are gentlemen." He shouldn't have been surprised; but he was just another victim of popular report. Like countless others, he thought sailors were instinctively rowdies, that the uniform was the signal for a rough-house, and that he had better nail everything down that was laying around loose...
...before. Residents rallied to the war service cause with an enthusiasm and generosity that can never be forgotten. On the whole, it was just a matter of making ourselves known, as one might say, "Mr. and Mrs. Jones, I am a sailor, a gentleman and a human being, just like everyone else," and the reply was, "Glad to meet you, Mr. Sailor; Mrs. Jones and I mean to be hospitable and neighborly. You have no reason to hold aloof and consider us as 'unfriendly civilians.' Come over to dinner Sunday...
...army is a citizen army. It is composed of our brothers, our cousins and our sons. Nothing like it has been seen in America even in the days of '61, for at that time the volunteer system alone determined the service. The American Army in France is ourselves in khaki. All classes are represented. It is entirely democratic in its personnel and in its spirit. It is an army to be proud of and to be cared for. It is far from home and it will not be strange if many of the boys become homesick-especially if the winter...
...America take heed. Let us sacrifice our petty criticisms to the need of maintaining a united front. The English political genius will no doubt solve the present problem. Yet the occurrence of the break means a distinct loss. Although America might patch up like internal difficulties, it nevertheless can not afford to risk a disorganization such as is threatening England. A house divided against itself must surely fall. Stand intelligently behind your government and avoid that criticism which breeds dissension, political discord, and the poisoning of our entire effort...
...verily believe that it would be better for civilization to end in the Ragnarok, or 'twilight of the gods,' like ancient Valhalla, than for it to continue 'half slave and half free' with a Prussian Kaiser as the dominating influence...