And how about M Company of the 23rd regiment of the 2nd Division?
It lost in one day at Chateau-Thierry all its men but seven.

And did the general forget the 3rd Division between Chateau-Thierry and Dormans?
Don't be like that brigadier general, and don't be like that American officer returning on the Lapland who told the British at his table he was glad to get home after cleaning up the mess which the British had made.
Resemble as little as possible our present Secretary of the Navy.

Avoid boasting.

Our contribution to victory was quite enough without boasting.
The head-master of one of our great schools has put it thus to his schoolboys who fought: Some people had to raise a hundred dollars.

After struggling for years they could only raise seventy-five.