We have captured about 41,000
prisoners and 1,400 guns, howitzers and trench mortars....
Finally, I pay the supreme tribute to our officers and soldiers of the
line. When I think of their heroism, their patience under hardships,
their unflinching spirit of offensive action, I am filled with emotion
which I am unable to express. Their deeds are immortal, and they have
earned the eternal gratitude of our country.
CHAPTER LIX
PRESIDENT WILSON'S REVIEW OF THE WAR
On December 2, 1918, just prior to sailing for Europe to take part in
the Peace Conference, President Wilson addressed Congress, reviewing the
work of the American people, soldiers, sailors and civilians, in the
World War which had been brought to a successful conclusion on November
11th. His speech, in part, follows:
"The year that has elapsed since I last stood before you to fulfil my
constitutional duty to give to the Congress from time to time
information on the state of the Union has been so crowded with great
events, great processes and great results that I cannot hope to give you
an adequate picture of its transactions or of the far-reaching changes
which have been wrought in the life of our Nation and of the world. You
have yourselves witnessed these things, as I have. It is too soon to
assess them; and we who stand in the midst of them and are part of them
are less qualified than men of another generation will be to say what
they mean or even what they have been.
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