Excerpt from You Are the Hope of the World: An Appeal to the Girls and Boys of America Girls and boys of America, you are the hope of the world! During the Great War, boys of your age in Europe have died by thousands! Millions lie dead; other millions are shattered for life by wounds or the privations of prison-camps. Millions! Can you imagine it? Five million! Ten million! God kws how many million more! Twelve million. Fifteen million, perhaps. It is an impossible figure - so huge that it means thing. 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 techlogy 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.