My country's part by Mary Synon
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"My country's part" by Mary Synon is a patriotic educational work written in the early 20th century. It explains America’s role in the World War and what citizens—especially young people—can do to support it, blending an inspiring fictional vignette with clear, accessible history and civic guidance. Expect a strong emphasis on loyalty to the United States, the meaning of democracy, and practical home‑front duties like conservation, fundraising, and volunteer service. The opening
of the book begins with a short story about John Sutton and his resolute, blind grandmother, who senses the danger of divided loyalties as John’s father attends a secret meeting where Irish and German sympathizers plot un-American acts. She confronts the conspirators, shaming them as immigrants who owe allegiance to their adopted country, then takes John to the Battery by Castle Garden to recount her famine-era immigration, love for Ireland and deeper gratitude to America, and to bind him by a pledge to put country first after God. The narrative then shifts to concise nonfiction: the arrival of American veterans from France, why the war is a fight of democracy versus autocracy, how German actions pushed the United States from neutrality to a congressional declaration of war, and how the nation mobilizes—selective service, training camps, Pershing’s forces, and the “rear-line trenches” of the home front through food and fuel conservation, Liberty Loans and Thrift Stamps, and Red Cross relief. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Synon, Mary, 1881-1987 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 18014840 |
| Title | My country's part |
| Original Publication | New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918. |
| Credits | David E. Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 69.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918) |
| Subject | World War, 1914-1918 -- United States |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 76636 |
| Release Date | Aug 6, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 195 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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