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Winning a Cause: World War Stories

Chapter 96: After-Days
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About This Book

This volume assembles age-appropriate stories, speeches, poems, and illustrations that trace the United States' entry into the First World War and its military, naval, and diplomatic contributions. It opens with explanations of why America entered the conflict, follows personal episodes of soldiers, sailors, and airmen, and recounts celebrated incidents such as the Lost Battalion and Pershing's remembrance at Lafayette's tomb. It includes presidential messages, accounts of the armistice and the Paris peace negotiations, and patriotic verse and imagery, arranging firsthand reports and literary pieces to help young readers grasp causes, conduct, and consequences of the war from an American perspective.




PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY

[Transcriber's note: Because of the quantity of Unicode characters in these four pages, it was decided to just display them as images. Also, some of the "characters" on these pages are composite, e.g. the double-oh in the Abdul Hamid pronunciation, and not present even in Unicode.]

[Illustration: Pronouncing vocabulary—page 367.]


[Illustration: Pronouncing vocabulary—page 368.]


[Illustration: Pronouncing vocabulary—page 369.]


[Illustration: Pronouncing vocabulary—page 370.]




After-Days

When the last gun has long withheld
Its thunder, and its mouth is sealed,
Strong men shall drive the furrow straight
On some remembered battlefield.

Untroubled they shall hear the loud
And gusty driving of the rains,
And birds with immemorial voice
Sing as of old in leafy lanes.

The stricken, tainted soil shall be
Again a flowery paradise—
Pure with the memory of the dead
And purer for their sacrifice.

ERIC CHILMAN