SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on May 25, 2020 4:48:23 GMT -5
Decoration Day Sleep, comrades, sleep and rest On this Field of the Grounded Arms, Where foes no more molest, Nor sentry’s shot alarms! Ye have slept on the ground before, And started to your feet At the cannon’s sudden roar, Or the drum’s redoubling beat. But in this camp of Death No sound your slumber breaks; Here is no fevered breath, No wound that bleeds and aches. All is repose and peace, Untrampled lies the sod; The shouts of battle cease, It is the Truce of God! Rest, comrades, rest and sleep! The thoughts of men shall be As sentinels to keep Your rest from danger free. Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Decoration Day,” a remembrance honoring the Civil War dead, was first published in the Atlantic in June 1882 issue and predated Memorial Day. How many Hoyas passed through the doors of Lauinger but never gave a single thought to whom it honored? blog.georgetownvoice.com/2009/05/25/memorial-day-remembering-joseph-mark-lauinger/
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