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The Vacant Chair. " The Vacant Chair " is a poem that was written following the death of John William Grout (July 25, 1843 – October 21, 1861). Grout was a soldier killed in the American Civil War during the Battle of Ball's Bluff. The poem, written by Henry S. Washburn was put to music by George Frederick Root and became a popular song of ...
Mason's poem "The Wall Within" was read at the 1984 dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. and has the distinction of being the only American work of poetry on display at the war memorial in Hanoi. The author of four books, his poetry related to his experiences as a captain in the United States Army during the Vietnam ...
Ilyse Kusnetz [1] (m.2010; died 2016) Brian Turner (born 1967) [2] is an American poet, essayist, and professor. He won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, Here, Bullet ( Alice James Books) the first of many awards and honors received for this collection of poems about his experience as a soldier in the Iraq War.
William "Bill" Daniel Ehrhart (born September 30, 1948) is an American poet, writer, scholar and Vietnam veteran. 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 ...
Musgrave was born in Independence, Missouri in 1948, and graduated from Van Horn High School in Independence in 1966. He enlisted with the Marine Corps just after graduating from high school. He was a member of the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines. He served in Vietnam for 11 months and seventeen days before being permanently disabled by his third ...
Just a Common Soldier. "Just a Common Soldier ", also known as " A Soldier Died Today ", is a poem written in 1987. Written and published in 1987 by Canadian veteran and columnist A. Lawrence Vaincourt, it now appears in a number of anthologies and newspapers, particularly around Remembrance Day. [1] The Australian Legion included it in their ...
The Picket Guard. "The Picket-Guard", Harper's Weekly, 1861: “All quiet along the Potomac,” they say, “Except, now and then, a stray picket. Is shot as he walks on his beat to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. ’Tis nothing—a private or two, now and then, Will not count in the news of the battle ; Not an officer lost—only ...
We Shall Keep the Faith. " We Shall Keep the Faith " is a poem penned by Moina Michael in November 1918. She received inspiration for this poem from "In Flanders Fields". [1] The "poppy red" refers to Papaver rhoeas . Sleep sweet – to rise anew! With All who died. In Flanders Fields. We wear in honor of our dead.