Sidney D. Light's WWI Diary, Postcards & Letters, 329th Battery Book Accounts

        Back in the United States millions of men were working twenty-four hours out of the day. The machinery of thousands upon thousands of factories hummed in never ceasing union. Millions upon millions of dollars were loaned by the people and spent by the government. Thousands upon thousands of ships with men and provisions crossed the sea.

        In Europe hundreds of trains moved daily from seaports to the front. Thousands upon thousands of motor trucks plowed their way through muck and mire with food and ammunition. Hundreds of thousands of men and cannon worked day and night back of the trenches. Millions of dollars’ worth of shells were daily thrown toward Germany. And all for what? We found out on the day of the armistice. Rushing up to the front lines we found a thin line of tired, hungry, smiling doughboys. These were the fellows we were all backing up.