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Poetry Corner: “Memorial Day Thoughts,” submitted by Carolyn Fallon

June 2, 2017 by Editor Leave a Comment

Pensees on that Memorial Day time-that sack cloth and ashes time, that dies ire, dies illa memorial—-submitted Carolyn Fallon, Benicia “What passing bells for those who die like cattle—- The old lie: ‘Dulce et decorum est, Pro Patria mori.’—- Above all I am not concerned with poetry, My subject is War, and the pity of […]

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