Excerpt from The Boy With the GunsThey pile up the material out of which history will some day be constructed, they enable us in some measure to realize the passion of trial and suffering through which our boys have gone for us, with all their crudities and imperfections, they rise sometimes in their bald simplicity to epic dignity, and they afford insight into men tal and emotional penetralia of the deepest significance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology 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.