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Strength lies not in defense but in attack. -- Marquis de Acerba |
"Monuments and Memories" by: Robert A Gannon(166 total words in this text)(3695 Reads)  On Monuments an Memories Recalling time of strife, They seem to think it only is a name on a stone While I reflect easily that name could be my own, Should I forget those men who stood and fell by me? Should I forget those torrid isles upon that sultry sea? Should I forget that smiling lad from Arizona's plain Who fought alongside me though wounded and in pain? Or should I just forget about that corpsman standing fast Who put his body over mine and took that mortar blast? Should I forget those countless men who waded into shore And gave their lives defending my country and my Corps? I can't forget one single name, those men are with me still If I don't remember them, I ask you then who will? |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
