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Disarmingly simple and clear, Muske-Dukes’s lapidary, ardent poem recalls us to our losses, our selves, a responsibility that extends “to a soldier” -- to a man, to a woman.
A soldier's remarkable war story, from the evacuation of Dunkirk to his escape from a prisoner of war camp and time with the Italian Resistance, is being shared in a recording he made for his ...
Remembrance Day commemorates the fallen soldiers of war Quotes Czeslaw Milosz, The Issa Valley "Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear." Harold Nicolson, British delegate to the 1919 ...
Highgate Heights seventh grader’s poem honors Army Pvt. David Evans Jr., who was killed in Iraq in 2003 at age 18: “He fought in a war and he fought for ...
“Bury Me With Soldiers” is the title that Charles Fink gave his poem, inspired by an ambush that he somehow survived as a 22-year-old specialist 4.
A soldier’s poems come home; and the governor takes a ride Kathy Moody of Eldersburg recently received a pack of mail from her son, Lance Cpl. Gary Adelhardt Jr., who has been in the gulf are… ...
Walt Whitman, whose birthday is Friday, wrote this poem about the experience of being 71 for Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. It was published in November 1889.
Dear Editor: I attended the deployment ceremony for the Northport National Guard Company A, 31st Support Command on Monday, July 18. A 13-year-old girl wrote a poem dedicated to one of the ...
TEESSIDE soldier Jason Armstrong listened with a lump in his throat as his ten-year-old daughter Emma recited her poignant poem about the day he left for Iraq.