Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Armistice Day Address, Vol. 19: Delivered at the Armistice Day Convocation of the University of Illinois, November 11, 1921
It 18 impossible to address an audience composed so largely of young men and women on the anniversary of Armistice Day without reflecting on the meaning of that day to the young men and women of America. When silence fell at eleven o'clock on November 11, 1918, after more than four interminable years of the unbelievable noise of war, those of us elders who listened In that instant of heal ing peace, thought first Of all: This saves our young men. 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.
