Who will tell it right?
Who will make this drop of perfect valor shine in prose or verse for future eyes to see?
Imagine a Hoboken ferry boat, because her country needed her, starting for San Francisco around Cape Horn, and getting there.

Some ten or eleven penny steamers under their own steam started from the Thames down the Channel, across the Bay of Biscay, past Gibraltar, and through the submarined Mediterranean for the River Tigris.

Boats of shallow draught were urgently needed on the River Tigris.

Four or five reached their destination.

Where are the rest?
What did England do in the war, anyhow?
During 1917-1918 Britain's armies held the enemy in three continents and on six fronts, and cooperated with her Allies on two more fronts.
Her dead, those six hundred and fifty-eight thousand dead, lay by the Tigris, the Zambesi, the AEgean, and across the world to Flanders' fields.