A Destiny of Undying Greatness: Kiffin Rockwell and the Boys Who Remembered Lafayette

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"During the first two and a half years of World War I, the example of Kiffin Rockwell and other idealistic American boys fighting for France shone like a beacon across the Atlantic Ocean, summoning America to take its rightful part in the ongoing struggle for civilization. Intent on paying what they saw as their debt to Lafayette, who had played such a key role in America's fight for independence more than a century earlier, Kiffin and a handful of other like-minded young men ignored President Wilson's declared neutrality and came together in France, first in the trenches as simple volunteer soldiers and than in the skies as part of an all-American squadron of the world's first fighter pilots."--Back cover