Service With Fighting Men An Account Of The Work Of The American Young Mens Christian Associations In The World War Classic Reprint

Download or read book Service with Fighting Men written by William Howard Taft and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Service With Fighting Men: An Account of the Work of the American Young Men's Christian Associations in the World War Notwithstanding the extended, varied, and rich experience of the Association Movement before the War, its efforts, like those of all other organizations, and, in fact, like virtually all departments of all governments engaged in the conflict, were attended with shortcomings and mistakes. It is one of the merits Of this history of the Y war work that these are frankly admitted and treated with unusual candor. It should be added, however, that, taking full account of the flaws and blunders in the pathway of this great undertaking, they seem relatively negligible when placed in contrast with the vast volume of patriotic, constructive service rendered by the tens of thousands of men and women workers in charge of the enterprise, and likewise by the multitudes of American citizens who so generously backed them by advocacy, by use of influence, and by sacrificial gifts. 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.