PART II
"True to One's Orbit and the Service of Shining."
CHAPTER XIV
THE CALL TO ARMS
It has come at last—the call to arms—the biggest thing that may ever be my lot to record in all my life, or the life of my country. So I have hunted up this old book of Memoirs that I have not written in for months, in order that I may put down the date.
April 6, 1917. On this day the United States declared war against Germany!