Excerpt from The American Legion Monthly, Vol. 15: December, 1933 Recruits, listening, gaped at the suggestion. Pickens had made no direct threat. But the men understood. Deep in their shocked hearts they approved. When they got into action, Sergeant Pickens must discharge his piece into the captain's back. Look ing back, it seems curious now that men should even think such thoughts. There was nothing strange about it then. Everyone was a little mad in 1917. 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.