This poem, written in 1914 during what was then called The Great War, is as apt today as it was when the ink was still wet on the poet's manuscript.

May God bless all our past and present Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen, for laying their lives on the line for American liberty. Their blood is the Holy Water that binds our Nation together. May we never fail them and the ideals which caused them to answer the Call of Duty.

God Bless America!

Bill Thibeault


Ode to the Fallen:

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Laurence Binyon, 1914.

“Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.“ President Abraham Lincoln

quote:

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Laurence Binyon, 1914.

Thanks for that.