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Excerpt from The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 5: April 20, 1923 M ost men see only those things that are near at hand. The farmer notes the sprouting wheat of his field rather than the trees of the. Forest. The ditch digger con cerns himself with good red _clay and not with blue sky. The average Legionnaire probably gives little thought to the policies of the national organization. He is proud of its achievements, but the thing that bothers him is Whether the post dance will be a success, whether the next meeting will' be lively enough to warrant giving up a date to go to the movies. Comradeship is the Legion' s reason for being; the keep ing alive of the memories of the Great War. This it is that strikes home to every man. 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 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.