Excerpt from Utah in the World War: The Men Behind the Guns and the Men and Women Behind the Men Behind the GunsIn the preparation of a memorial book for a limited edition to be distributed among the heads of the several councils and committees who directed the activities of the army of civilians with-out whose Whole-hearted services mere fight ing would have been useless, it has been deemed desirable to curtail particulars of transient or purely personal interest and present a general outline of wartime conditions, opera tions and issues as they affected the people of Utah.To follow the movements of enlisted men from this state would be to write a history of the war during a dreadful year and a half of incessant fighting, for there were Utah boys among the Allies on every front and in almost every battle after we got fairly started. Any satisfactory account of their military exploits would require many such volumes and must be left to the future. This record has no such pre tentions aim. The information it is intended to preserve has been condensed in order to print, for the first time, a bare list of those who wore the uniform, while a register of all who served faithfully with'out uniforms would be at least as long again.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology 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.