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...must "do the best we can to win the war." With valor and vigor and experience in command, General Wood is sure, living, to do his part, the spirit of his loyal utterance sustaining him. His part may lie on two continents. It will be useful to the common cause. It can hardly fail to be distinguished. --New York World...
...airplane in which he was acting as observer. He died during the night following the accident, but on that evening he and the pilot with whom he was flying were decorated with the Croix de Guerre with palm "for excellent, faithful and courageous work in numerous former flights." Their valor in operating in Seicheprey on April 20, under heavy fire and adverse weather conditions was especially mentioned. Culbert was a former editor of the CRIMSON...
...remembered through memorials of marble, other thought the literature of fellow-men. In every instance, however, the world tries to honor in the most imperishable form it can devise, those qualities of manhood which outlast any memorial. Never can we perpetuate in a truly permanent and fitting way the valor of courageous self-sacrifice, but we aim forever to make our tribute as lasting as possible. William Meeker's death deserves the most enduring honor fellow-men are able to give, however insignificant that...
France has summoned her boys for the defense of their native land against the impending national disaster. They have responded with the valor of men. Germany has summoned boys not so young, but still too young for the harsh work of war, that her divisions might be kept at full strength...
...fearful cost of modern warfare, those national powers which once insured victory for a people no longer avail. Valor and fortitude, however great, may win unaided skirmishes, but they may not win wars. The fullest resources of the nation in material must be gathered together to arm troops and sustain them during the long havoc-working months in the field. As example of this, if the constantly expected but unlikely sudden breakdown does occur in Germany, it will be not a breakdown of man power, but of material, of money, of national credit whereby individuals will cease to bear arms...