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Title: A history of Virginia for boys and girls
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Wayland, John Walter, 1872-1962
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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a, as always since her youth, was readyto do her part. As one of the forty-eight stateswhose stars shine on our flag, she proved herselfworthy of her history and of the goodly companyin which she has lived so long. In all, 85,810 Virginians served in the armiesand navies of liberty, under the Star-SpangledBanner. How many more entered the conflictunder the flags of the Allies prior to 1917 weperhaps will never know. But if their numberwas not large it was inspiring; and some of theirnames are written in light and are sealed withgolden stars. The appeal that this war made to students inour schools and colleges is remarkable, but notsurprising. Young men who study history learnmuch about liberty, justice, human rights, andhuman duties. These things become principlesin their life and thought. Therefore, when rightand justice and liberty are threatened, the soul 2 B 369 370 A HISTORY OF VIRGINIA of the student is stirred. He does not have towait until his own shores are invaded — he can
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WOODROW WILSON hear the cry of his own people in the distress ofother lands. And so our best young men, like the VIRGINIA AND THE WORLD WAR 371 young men of the provinces in olden days, wentout first. Some of them went out from OxfordUniversity in England, whither they had gone asRhodes scholars. Others went out from ourschools and our cities at home. And some whowent, though not her sons, Virginia, as a fostermother, is proud to claim, because they weresojourners for a while within her borders. On the campus of our state university, asalready noted in Chapter XXXI, is an inspiringmonument to James McConnell. He was a sonof North Carolina, but he was a student for a whilein Virginia. Therefore Virginia honors him, to-gether with others who were like him. Almostat the first he saw that the fight of England andFrance and Belgium was really a fight for humanrights everywhere. He also felt that Americaowed something to France for Lafayette and hiscomrades. So he went to pay, as he said, h

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