"Everybody around me was going crazy about the war. I was under age- eighteen- but with as bad a case of war fever as …"

"Ever since I'd learned to talk- or tried to learn- my stuttering had made a barrier between me and other people. It h…"

"Sometime in May we began to have a feeling that our days of preparation were nearly over. We'd find officers standing…"

"That afternoon we took Le Charmel. There weren't many of us left."

"I didn't like those intervals between fighting. They gave me too much time to think. And my thoughts were getting pre…"

"A tall officer mounted a little platform that had been set up to our front. I'd never seen him before, but I knew him…"

"At last General Pershing finished his speech and climbed down from his platform. He came straight toward Lieutenant H…"

"General Sladen told me then that I could stand at ease, and I was altogether more comfortable physically than I'd bee…"

"When the decorating part of the ceremony was over they marched us around and placed us on the reviewing line behind G…"

"Pfc. Barkley, who was stationed in an observation post half a kilometer from the German line, on his own initiative r…"