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This year, as we honor Veterans Day on November 11, 2023, we recognize the American patriots who have served in the military, and thank them for their service to our country.Reading and sharing ...
The War Prayer", a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war. The structure of the work is simple: an unnamed country goes to war, and patriotic citizens attend a church service for soldiers who have been called up.
"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 ...
O Valiant Hearts to the tune "O Valiant Hearts" is a hymn remembering the fallen of the First World War.It often features prominently in annual Remembrance Day services in the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth.
Powell's collection, First Poems (1937) and was influenced by Housman. [48] [49] [nb 16] [50] His second volume of poems, Casting Off, and Other Poems, was printed in 1939. [nb 17] [51] [nb 18] [52] A further collection of poems, Dancer's End and The Wedding Gift, were published in 1951. A full collection of poems were published in one volume ...
Outrage among church-goers caused both committees to back down. [11] However, the hymn was omitted from both the 1990 and 2013 hymnals of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), [12] the Australian Hymn Book, published in 1977, its successor, Together in Song, (1999) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's 2006 hymnal.
We Sons of today, we salute you. You Sons of an earlier day; We follow, close order, behind you, where you have pointed the way; The long gray line of us stretches, thro' the years of a century told And the last man feels to his marrow, the grip of your far off hold. Grip hands with us now though we see not, grip hands with us strengthen our ...
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 ...