Although we don’t officially celebrate until tomorrow in the United States, today marks the 89th anniversary of the end of World War I. Here is one of the best pieces of writing about that war that I know.
HERE DEAD LIE WE
Here dead lie we
Because we did not choose
To live and shame the land
From which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is
Nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is,
And we were young.
A. E. Houseman
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This week’s Prairie Home Companion suggests a fine idea: Use this day to honor our veterans of all wars by praying for peace.
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