Excerpt from History of Battery E, 323rd Field Artillery: A Brief History of the Activities of This Organization During the War With Germany

History, we ofttimes think, is a dry subject. So it is when it deals merely with dates, births and deaths. But when it tells of living men and their hopes, what they think, how they talk, with whom they associate and what they achieve, it becomes a study which finds sympathy in the hearts of all of us; for do we not also hope, think, act and achieve?

Truly, man is an emotional creature. When a common cause brings men together; when united endeavor knits them into an organization; when daily association produces a change in the lives of all of them; then it is that a new feeling arises - one of mutual sympathy, sacrifice, joy and achievement. This spirit, existing only when a number of human beings live together, is called It is the milk of human kindness which sustains men in the hour when difficulties are to be overcome and when the desires of the indi vidual must give way to the demands of unselfish service.

The Great War has lasted almost three years and the advances of the Huns on land and their ruthless submarine warfare on sea had well nigh exhausted the man-power and resources of the Entente allies. After repeated insults and broken promises on the part of Germany to the United States, Congress passed an act declaring that a state of war existed between the United States and Germany. This act was passed on April l6th, 1917, and another war was added to the list of conflicts in American History which were begun in the month of April.

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