The Story of the American Legion: The Birth of the Legion, the First of a Series to Be Issued After Each Annual National Convention (Classic Reprint) by George Seay Wheat (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from The Story of the American Legion: The Birth of the Legion, the First of a Series to Be Issued After Each Annual National Convention The American Legion was conceived by practically the entire personnel of the army, navy, and marine corps! Every man in the military and naval establishment did t think of it in just such terms, but most of them knew that there would be a veterans' organization of some tremendous import, and here it is! A veterans' organization of some kind will be formed. I heard that identical remark t once, but a dozen times on board a transport en route to France as early as September, 1918. In fact, one night in the war zone a group of officers were huddled around a small pia trying to make the best of a lightless evening, and, having sung every song from Keep the Home Fires Burning to You're in the Army Now, paused, longingly toyed cigarettes which were taboo by ship's order, and then began to spin yarns. Reminds me of a G. A. R. reunion, one second lieutenant from Maine remarked, after a particularly daring training camp adventure had been recounted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.