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oblivious
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Sun Jan-07-07 06:52 PM Original message |
War poems. Please post your favourite or your own. |
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jody
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Sun Jan-07-07 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. "Coming Home" by Curtis D. Bennett |
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
2. Brothers in Arms, by Mark Knopfler |
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Monkeyman
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Beat me to it |
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The Straight Story
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. See 'the little bear' at my link: |
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LostinVA
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
4. "High Flight" and "In Flanders Field" |
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LostinVA
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
5. Not a poem, but: St. Crispin's Day Speech from "Henry V" |
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dipsydoodle
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:08 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers |
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LostinVA
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:10 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. That speech always makes me cry when I see it performed |
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dipsydoodle
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:15 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Last time I used that phrase |
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dipsydoodle
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
7. One of Woody's - When the Roses Bloom Again |
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judaspriestess
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
8. these are actually lyrics to a song |
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valerief
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
10. Here's one. |
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yewberry
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:09 PM Response to Original message |
11. A couple: |
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me b zola
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Sun Jan-07-07 09:45 PM Response to Reply #11 |
33. Well, that's what I get for posting before reading the replies |
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ironflange
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
14. "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen |
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LostinVA
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:26 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I forgot about that one |
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The Blue Flower
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
15. Dulce Et Decorum Est |
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SaveElmer
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
17. Sheridan's Ride... |
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dipsydoodle
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
18. JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE MOTHER |
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ironflange
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
19. Another one by Owen, particularly applicable today |
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jody
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
20. Not a poem, but worth listening to, General Douglas MacArthur: Thayer Award Acceptance Address |
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SoCalDem
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
21. From our own DU war poetry slam |
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Book Lover
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Sun Jan-07-07 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
22. Sassoon tends to be the one who moves me most |
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montieg
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Sun Jan-07-07 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
23. Dylan: Masters of War |
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SEABEE Chief
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Sun Jan-07-07 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
24. Here's one |
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venable
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Sun Jan-07-07 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
25. American Football, by Harold Pinter |
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Sun Jan-07-07 08:14 PM Response to Original message |
26. "The Man He Killed" (Hardy); "War is Kind" (Crane) |
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Annces
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Sun Jan-07-07 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
27. Vietnam poem |
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Prisoner_Number_Six
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Sun Jan-07-07 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
28. Here's one I wrote many years ago |
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oblivious
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Sun Jan-07-07 09:41 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. It gave me the shivers, like the great poems above. |
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La_Fourmi_Rouge
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Sun Jan-07-07 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
29. "Song of Napalm" by Bruce Weigl |
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crispini
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Sun Jan-07-07 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
30. Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold |
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me b zola
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Sun Jan-07-07 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
31. I chose this one becaue it has special meaning to me |
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alcibiades_mystery
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Sun Jan-07-07 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
34. Sassoon: Blighters |
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