Project Gutenberg 2025-08-06 Public domain in the USA. 1160 Synon, Mary 1881 1987 18014840 My country's part $aNew York :$bCharles Scribner's Sons, $c1918. David E. Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "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.) https://archive.org/details/mycountryspart00syno/page/n7/mode/2up 20230909110259synon 1918 US Reading ease score: 69.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en World War, 1914-1918 -- United States D501 Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: History - American Category: History - Warfare 186204 2025-08-06T00:00:09.928662 text/html 161016 2025-08-05T23:00:40 text/html 1119104 2025-08-06T00:00:25.698550 application/epub+zip 1116799 2025-08-06T00:00:17.734583 application/epub+zip 268698 2025-08-06T00:00:12.606725 application/epub+zip 1833018 2025-08-06T00:00:32.470012 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1584317 2025-08-06T00:00:25.104563 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 161962 2025-08-06T00:00:09.499604 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 142103 2025-08-05T23:00:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 3930 2025-08-06T00:00:32.625987 application/rdf+xml 28036 2025-08-06T00:00:17.238562 image/jpeg 3878 2025-08-06T00:00:17.143595 image/jpeg 1755023 2025-08-06T00:00:09.982592 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog