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"Our Hitch in Hell" is a ballad by American poet Frank Bernard Camp, originally published as one of 49 [1] ballads in a 1917 collection entitled American Soldier Ballads, that went on to inspire multiple variants among American law enforcement and military, either as The Final Inspection, the Soldier's Prayer (or Poem), the Policeman's Prayer ...
War memorial in ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand CWGC headstone with excerpt from "For The Fallen". Laurence Binyon (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943), [3] a British poet, was described as having a "sober" response to the outbreak of World War I, in contrast to the euphoria many others felt (although he signed the "Author's Declaration" that defended British involvement in the ...
Three of Binyon's poems, including "For the Fallen", were set by Sir Edward Elgar in his last major orchestra/choral work, The Spirit of England. [ 9 ] In 1915, despite being too old to enlist in the armed forces, Binyon volunteered at a British hospital for French soldiers, Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois , Haute-Marne , France, working ...
Fallen police officers from across the UK have been honoured at a service in Belfast. ... During the service, prayers were said by family members, including Stephen Bromilow, father of PC John ...
The poem was set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson in 1927 and, under the name Christopher Robin is Saying His Prayers, many commercial recordings of the song were released including by Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn. In his 1974 memoir, Christopher Milne described it as a "wretched poem" which inaccurately described his thoughts in prayer.
EDISON – When describing Anthony Raspa, the words “happy, determined, kind, loyal, brave, dedicated and dependable” are replayed like a prayer by his family, friends, fellow law enforcement ...
The Prayer appears before A. J. Quinnell's novel Man on Fire, the main protagonist of which is an ex-paratrooper in the Legion. This prayer also appears in Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's book, On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace, Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre, and Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Jim ...
St. Clair County Sheriff Mat King cited statistics from the Officer Down Memorial Page, a website which tracks law enforcement deaths, showing 58 officers have died across the United States in ...