America's War for Humanity

To the soldiers and sailors of the United States and Canada; to the men of the armies and navies of nations allied with us; to the splendid courage and devotion of American, French, British and Belgian women, who have endured in silence the pain of losses worse than death, and never faltered in works of mercy for which no thanks can ever pay; to all the agencies of good that have helped save civilization and the world from the most dreadful menace of all time, this volume is dedicated. To the honor of those nations upon whom the laurel of victory has descended. To those who have vouchsafed for us the permanence of the higher ideals of humanity and civilization. To those who have sheltered posterity from the dominance of barbarity, brutality, serfdom, bigotry and degradation. To those who have striven against the Teuton and the Turk that God-given and God-ordained freedom may triumph