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Whether you have family members, friends, or neighbors who served or are serving in the U.S. military, take the time to express your gratitude for the sacrifices they've made for our freedom.
17. Thank you for giving 110%—you’re truly amazing, and your effort is appreciated more than you know! 18. Thank you for always going the extra mile—you truly make a difference with your ...
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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 ...
Hail and Farewell (a translation of ave atque vale, last words of the poem Catullus 101) is a traditional military event whereby those coming to and departing from an organization are celebrated. This may coincide with a change in command, be scheduled on an annual basis, or be prompted by any momentous organizational change.
Three of these date from the same period: an untitled vernacular poem ("My girl she gave me the go onst") taken from a short story, The Courting of Dinah Shadd, in Life's Handicap (1891); Bobs (1893), a poem praising Lord Roberts; and The Absent-Minded Beggar (1899), a poem written to raise funds for the families of soldiers called up for the ...
According to the oral tradition of Wyeth's family, the war poet and Pound were friends. [33] [34] Wyeth's book of poems, a sonnet sequence entitled This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets, was published in 1928. [1] Wyeth's sonnets are in a mixture of iambic pentameter and the "loose five stress most commonly used in popular spoken verse."
The poem's three unemotional quatrains are written in iambic trimeter with only line 5 in iambic tetrameter. Lines 1 and 3 (and others) end with extra syllables. The rhyme scheme is abcb. The poem's "success" theme is treated paradoxically: Only those who know defeat can truly appreciate success. Alliteration enhances the poem's lyricism.