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  2. Submarines (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Submarines" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the third of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet". [1] Like the others in the cycle, is intended for four baritone voices.

  3. John Thomason - Wikipedia

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    John William Thomason Jr. (28 February 1893 – 12 March 1944) was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps, as well as an author and illustrator of several books and magazine stories. [ 1 ]

  4. The Souldiers Pocket Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Souldiers Pocket Bible had just 16 pages that contained some 150 verse quotations from the Geneva Bible, [10] [11] all related to war. [6] All but four of the verses were from the Old Testament. [12] Verses intended to inspire the morale of Cromwell's soldiers included the following from the Geneva Bible:

  5. Jarhead (book) - Wikipedia

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    In an article about the banning of his book in the Hudsonville district, Swofford wrote that most of the books banned in American schools have been by either black and/or gay authors and that: "As a straight, white male writer who has written almost exclusively about the military and warfare, I might have thought my books were safe." [1 ...

  6. W. D. Ehrhart - Wikipedia

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    Ehrhart has been called "the dean of Vietnam war poetry." Donald Anderson, editor of War, Literature & the Arts, said Ehrhart's Vietnam–Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir, is "the best single, unadorned, gut-felt telling of one American's route into and out of America's longest war." Ehrhart has been an active member of Vietnam Veterans Against ...

  7. Moral Injury: Healing - The Huffington Post

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    Instead, therapists focus on helping morally injured patients accept that wrong was done, but that it need not define their lives. On the battlefield, some have devised makeshift rituals of cleansing and forgiveness. At the end of a brutal 12-month combat tour in Iraq, one battalion chaplain gathered the troops and handed out slips of paper.

  8. The Muse in Arms - Wikipedia

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    This anthology was one of several collections of war poetry published in the UK during the war. It "achieved large sales", [ 1 ] and was reprinted in February 1918. It has been referenced in several analyses of First World War poetry and has been described as "the most celebrated collection of the war years".

  9. Moral Injury: The Recruits - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    In his account of a 2003 combat deployment in Iraq, Soft Spots, Marine Sgt. Clint Van Winkle writes of such an incident: A car carrying two Iraqi men approached a Marine unit and a Marine opened fire, putting two bullet holes in the windshield and leaving the driver mortally wounded and his passenger torn open but alive, blood-drenched and ...