To chronicle all the activities and achievements of the sons and daughters of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania in the Great War would be to compile a complete history of the mighty struggle itself. Such a history would have its opening chapters dating from the day when he who was Emperor of the Germans summoned his militaristic hordes and sent them forth on an orgy of murder, pillage and terrorism to satiate his unholy greed for power and to realize his ambition of a fettered world.
