Excellent! I don't imagine there are too many of those cinderellas still around from WWI.
Recently, I have been reading some of the Life Magazines now on the internet from WWII and there are a number of poems/sayings of similar sentiment a generation later...here's one example from 1942:
Quote:
Let's drink a toast to the widening host—
Of Americans serving the nation—
To those millions of lads (and their brothers and dads)
Who are saving our civilization.
To the men from the mills and the farms and the hills
And the cities and mountains and plains—
To the workers and miners and airplane designers,
And crews on the ships and the trains.
Wherever they are—be it near, be it far,
On the land, in the air, on the sea—
With a stoutness of heart they are doing their part
To keep this—"the land of the free."
So good luck and God speed them—may nothing impede them
Nor make them delay nor digress—
May Christmastime find them with power behind them
To roll up a final success.
Fast forward to 2010 (almost 2011) and, as "djd" said, these words from long ago are still relevant today.
Posted 12/27/2010 12:48 am
