Christopher’s Reviews > Memoirs of My Services in the World War, 1917-1918 > Status Update

"Everywhere on the battlefield individuals were paying the price of long years of national unpreparedness. They paid with their lives and their limbs for the bullheaded obstinacy with which our people had opposed any rational system of training in time of peace, and with which the Congress had reflected this attitude." ~ George C. Marshall, 1921