tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143879202024-03-13T17:20:59.687-04:00Dailiesedthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11246604602039557708noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14387920.post-34929551509066688432021-09-29T11:05:00.015-04:002021-09-30T10:20:42.440-04:00<p>
</p><b><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><span>Armistice Day</span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A you walk Mt Pleasant avenue </span></b></p><p><b><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">turn at the gate to the
cemetery. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enter.<br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stop at the grave marker for Lowe. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This has become a habit for
me as I have become more aware of the ramifications of the first world war. At times
I might salute at other times I simply contemplate:</span></b>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How engaging and strong must have been the connections that
drove men (some,very young indeed) to travel thousands of miles and endure
utterly horrid conditions to preserve way of existence that they had come to
know as living. I suppose that this could be said of any war.</span></b>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs,</span></i></p>
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even from these dead doubts</span></i></p>
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gathers her most vital hope.</span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Herman
Melville<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, Moby Dick</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A HOMETOWN PARADE </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ed touchette</span></b></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">,</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Whistles blast, marchers align</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cheerleaders cheer, horses prance.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">crowded sidewalks dance</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Flat bed trucks haul local stories </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sirens whine and children scream,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">batons tumble through the air.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">At the cemetery </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a field of flags sprouts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Honors for the fallen. Crowds disperse </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They’ll meet at the bar</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">reminisce <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>older
times,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ask themselves, when will I be</span></p>
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time in the 1950s, I asked why the tanks were absent from the parade,</span></i></p>
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father said their treads tore up the pavement so they were dismissed.</span></i></p>
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told him I missed the tanks.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friends, refugees from Budapest, did not.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">a reconstruction.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-A5xX7nAjz52ZbWFZJJsGsRMxcmJyXTTY9FnX-3ANM-Ja9gwfTQRlVEQNM8K21IPBBqPXJOn3sjEe9aMsEOR2vCTAIGQosCjwRTIawkvKDgI5Wasxn6Sz8J169i73VNXxIMOxA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1638" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-A5xX7nAjz52ZbWFZJJsGsRMxcmJyXTTY9FnX-3ANM-Ja9gwfTQRlVEQNM8K21IPBBqPXJOn3sjEe9aMsEOR2vCTAIGQosCjwRTIawkvKDgI5Wasxn6Sz8J169i73VNXxIMOxA/" width="300" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stones, 2013</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mixed media/ paper</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">20 x 24 <br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">STONES </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ed touchette</span></b></span></b></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Surfaced bones,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">simple stones,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">caribou— </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All rise when Odin reigns</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Walker’s angel </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">lifts the chosen</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to cross the river.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Valkyrie’s selected comply.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Brevet immortals,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dust in the wind,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">staved by bullets, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">bombs, and cold.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Collect at the gates </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of the streets of death.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For honor and thanks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and the glory of kings.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Assuage ancient ghosts,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">unquestioned duty.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Honor, tradition, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and fame.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Revolt like the angels, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">roll the dice for peace and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">tranquility. Embrace humility.</span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So great has been the interest in the purely military side
of the struggle</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that one is apt to
forget that the war is worth study as the supreme occupation </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of many great nations, whose every energy, physical, moral,</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and economic, has
been put to its service, and relentlessly tested in its fiery furnace.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Henry
Beston,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> A Volunteer Poilu</b></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A future historian may find the war more interesting, </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when considered as the supreme achievement </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of the industrial civilization of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries,</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>than as a mere vortex
in the age-old ocean of European political strife. </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Henry
Beston,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> A Volunteer Poilu</b></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Often I think of the beautiful town</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That is seated by the sea;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Often in thought go up and down</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The pleasant streets of that dear old
town,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And my youth comes back to me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My Lost Youth</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">VETERANS’ DAY</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ed touchette</span></b></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
walk Mt. Pleasant Avenue, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">detour
through the grave yard </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">reset
broken flags at Veterans’ graves. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Read
stories etched in stone</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">worn,
weathered, audible</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
dead cry out to guide.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">What is done, accomplished, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">set in stone we find history.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Hear the stories, our stories</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Who we were, are, and will be,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">where we went and why.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Carved,
etched, worn flat</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">by
wind and water,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">draped
in lichen. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stones
record journeys, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
men rent asunder </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">by
the thunder of war,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
lives that gave meaning </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">to
a path forward.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like
Gilgamesh they ventured </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">left
others to carve their stories.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some
ended abruptly. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">with
bullets, bombs, and disease </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Raymond
Lowe, </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born
Rockport, Massachusetts, August 1894, </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Died
October 4, 1918,</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grave marker, Mt. Pleasant
Cemetery, Gloucester, MA</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Killed in action near
Breuilles, France. </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The very day the Kaiser
telegraphed Wilson seeking peace.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">38 days before the Armistice
to end the war to end all wars.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">War records</span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">On October 4, 1896, John
Henry Pruitt, USMC born, little Rock, AR.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">On October 3, 1918 John
Henry Pruitt was wounded </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>capturing 40 German soldiers and destroying </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2 machine guns in the Grand
Offensive </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">On his birthday, 1918, John
Henry Pruitt died from wounds</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">inflicted the day before the
Kaiser telegraphed Wilson seeking peace.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">38 days before the
Armistice to end the war to end all wars</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">John Henry Pruitt received
2 Posthumous Medals of Honor.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Arlington National Cemetery
Records</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He is dead, the beautiful youth,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The heart of honor, the tongue of truth</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He the light of us all,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whose voice blithe as a bugle call, </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whom eyes followed with one consent,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The cheer of whose laugh, and whose pleasant word, </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hushed all murmurs of discontent.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Killed at the Ford</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">On Webster Street and Davis
Street</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">two granite blocks with
brass plaques</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maxwell<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parsons</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born 1895</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Died July 3 1918</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Joseph Mattos Jr. </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">born Gloucester,Ma. October
4, 1899</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Joseph Mattos Jr. was killed in
action in France, October 5, 1918</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Memorial Plaques</span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The very day after the
Kaiser telegraphed Wilson seeking peace.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">37 days before the
Armistice to end the war to end all wars.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">....a boy about nineteen
had been hit in the chest and half his side was gone—</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">...he raised his sad tired
eyes to mine and tried a brave smile.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">... All the poor fellows
look at us with the same expression </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">of appreciation and thanks;</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Leslie Buswell<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ambulance No. 10</b></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">OXY-MORONIC</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ed touchette</span></b></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">These
wars for peace,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">these
civil wars, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">religious
crusades, and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">wars
to free the enslaved</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">that
incur such debt as to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">indenture
the future.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some
leaders boast a direct line to God</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Declaim
justice and freedom </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">at
the hands of sword or cannon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">young
ones fall never to rise.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
mind of man is convoluted.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">November 4, 1918—</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Poet Wilfred Owen (Dolce
Decorum Est) </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">killed in action in France</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">7 Days before the </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Armistice to End the War to
End All Wars was signed.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">November 5, 1918—</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">One year to the day after
being commissioned,</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lt. Samuel P. Mandell was shot down. He
survived </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the crash of his airplane
but was </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>executed by a German soldier.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">6
Days before the </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Armistice
to End the War to End All Wars was signed.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">November 11, 1918—</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Day the </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Armistice
to End the War to End All Wars was signed, </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bells
rang out in celebration. </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wilfred
Owen’s parents were notified of his death.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fleeing
the potato famine, </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Irish
immigrants flooded</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>into the United States 1845 – 1850</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">They
fought in the Civil War </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">with
both Confederate and Union Forces</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">FLASH</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ed touchette</span></b></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gone.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dust
in the wind.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remembrance
their only oxygen.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Insufflated
by monuments, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">parades,
and speeches. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wars
that cleanse.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bloody
and dirty. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not
all come home to welcome.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not
all come home.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Immigrants
purchase a place in line</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Join
the fight for good.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Believe
for what they stood.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some
return to what they’d left.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
labor welding the rods.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
backs lifting the loads</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">dreaming
of better for those </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">they’ve
mothered and fathered. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We were conquered because we failed to
understand that Victory is a Spirit, and it is in ourselves alone that we must
attack and destroy Ialdabaoth.”</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anatole France, published <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Revolt of the Angels</i></b>
in 1914.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Perhaps he had seen Madame Mira</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">another soothsayer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">AFTER READING GEORGE WILL</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ed touchette</span></b></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
self-inflated soar</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">high,
on self engendered thermals.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Below,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">tethered
by belief,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">stopping
by to eye day lilies—</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">short-lived
but glorious,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">laboring
for all of us,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">more
than I for me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their
passion begets life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dicks
and Henrys </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">berate
doubters.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Traitors,
cowards, thieves, and liars.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unpatriotic.
Denounced by </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">these
holy men, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">these
priests of war.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">who
battle spirits, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ghosts,
and fears. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kindled,
rekindled</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">left
unattended </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">while
they ascended.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Destiny
manifested.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ends
through means </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">blessed
by legacy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">leaving
their refuse for others </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">to
gather and reassemble.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">At
Gettysburg, on Little Round Top, </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
air chills on a very warm day.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">At
Cemetery Ridge, a pall coats the field.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times Roman";">Methinks that what they call </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times Roman";">my shadow here on earth </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times Roman";">is my true substance.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Herman Melville,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Moby
Dick</b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";">In closing, Satan muses that the real battle is not external, but
internal to every man, demon and seraph. We must overcome our own jealousy,
fear, superstition and ignorance, and cultivate wisdom, compassion, curiosity,
and the love of arts and beauty instead.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">October 4, 1957<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Russians launched
Sputnik </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">into Earth orbit, fueling
the fires of The Cold War.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">39 years from the very day
the Kaiser telegraphed Wilson seeking peace.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">39 years and 38 days after
the Armistice to end the war to end all wars.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Ah! vainest of all things</span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Is the gratitude of kings;</span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The plaudits of the crowd</span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Are but the clatter of feet</span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">At midnight in the street,</span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Hollow and restless and loud.</span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,</span></i></span><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Belisarius</b></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Monuments</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ed touchette</span></b></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some
monuments wreak</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
efforts to exorcise ghosts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
are here</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born
here</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
the Earth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Take
care.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Take
care children, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">your
dreams of peace </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">may
wilt and melt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">in
the heat of</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">sons
and daughters,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
get of aristocracy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mothers don’t raise your children </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">to die in wars in foreign lands.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">to drown in creeks and swamps,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">to hang from trees.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mothers raise your sons and daughters </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">to grace the world.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">During
the War of 1812,</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">New
England states considered secession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace
with England would end a blockade</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">that
was infringing on trade<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1860,
at the party convention in Charleston, SC</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">W.
L. Yancy, one of the ‘fire eaters’ </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">endeavored
to split the Democratic Party </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
secure secession for Southern States.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
preserve the way of living, </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">slavery
was necessary. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE
DEAD </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ed touchette</span></b></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shaw’s men on Beacon Hill,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Union intended.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Still we wait: For North to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">recognize the South </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">for whites to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">recognize blacks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">for all to recognize the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">people here before</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the Italian sailed for </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Isabella, Queen of Spain. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today is magnificent</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">tomorrow awaits with</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">no guarantees.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">From Mary Chestnut’s Diary:
</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Leaving Montgomery, Alabama
with companions.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Browne was horrified when a man was shot
in the street.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It is war fever. Soldiers must be fierce.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the right temper for the times cropping
out.” </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">WORK</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ed touchette</span></b></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Extrapolation
requires thought,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">thought requires
effort,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">effort is work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">WORDS TO LIVE BY</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ed touchette</span></b></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beware
the vanity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Embrace
the sanity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ruminate.
Cogitate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cerebrate. Deduce.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">EPILOGUE</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Madame Sosostris, renowned clairvoyant,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">did not foresee the implications of</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the patent clerk’s calculations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> ©2020 </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ed touchette</span></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Other work credits to author indicated in the copy </span> </span>______________________________</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The foresight of man is
short, and his prudence is for ever being baffled. </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The blows of fate are
ineluctable no man shall evade his doom.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is no counsel no
caution that avails against destiny. </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hapless as we are, the same
blind force which regulates </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the courses of atom and
star fashions universal </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">order from our vicissitudes
. Our ill fortune is necessary </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">for the harmony of the
universe.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anatole France, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Revolt
of the Angels</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">______________________________________________________________________</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">WATERS
OF THE LETHE</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ed touchette</span></b></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">An Ode to Charlottesville</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We stood beneath the lintel</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where vistas are boundless.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But crossing to Elysium, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We stopped to quench our thirst.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blinded by the light and freedom </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We anointed others to our rightful place,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Went back.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">To divine with sprigs of oak and hick’ry,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Talk through cans attached with string.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Save the statues</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fly the flags </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">To remark the horrors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The waters of the Lethe prompt serial
delusion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">©2020 Ed Touchette</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">* * * *</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harry Crosby, a graduate of Harvard, and Richard Hall, a
graduate of Dartmouth, enlisted in the AFS and drove ambulances. Both succumbed
to war injuries— Hall instantly when a stray German shell landed close to his
vehicle. </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Crosby died from a self inflicted gun shot in 1929.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was believed he never recovered </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">from his near death experience </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">when an artillery shell exploded </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">just yards from his ambulance.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">He was the lone survivor.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ""Times New Roman"","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ""Times New Roman"","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ""Times New Roman"","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Suggested reading:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ""Times New Roman"","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ""Times New Roman"","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: ""Times New Roman"","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Guns of August</span></span></b> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Barbara Tuchman</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The <span style="font-size: small;">Poems of Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow</span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Coming Fury</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—Bruce Catton</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">A Diary from Dixi</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">e—Mary Boykin Chestnut</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Revolt of the Angels</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—Anatole France</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Wasteland</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—T.S.Eliot</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Still Looking</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—John Updike</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Moby Dick</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—Herman Melville</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">For the Union Dead</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—Robert Lowell</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ambulance No. 10</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—Leslie Buswell</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Black Sun</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—Geoffrey Wolff </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Op Eds, New York Times,</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Washington Post</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—George Will</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">America's Longest War</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—George C Herring </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Armies of the Night</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">— Norman Mailer </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">A Volunteer Poilu</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">— Henry Beston </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">kick up dust. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Discover
artifacts— times past, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">secure beneath layers
of years.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Insufflated by recognition,
they’ll float.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">upward, filtered
through time, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">They’ll begin to
sparkle— motes, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">dancing in
sunlight </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">that slips through
an attic window.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Reconnected with
the re-collected this renascence </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">reconstitutes
pasts to</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">vivid, palpable,
tactile presents, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">revitalized but
altered.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Their genesis,
once in real time, now transmogrified in space time, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">leaves us pining for
original forms </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">now lost in the
continuum.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";">Not forgotten.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif";"> </span></p>
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</span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">thoughts, poems, stories</span></span></i></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span> </span></i></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjopG5IlLT3iNtofiekUNplpxxKFuFsutCHUtO9R-vdbDL-nKPTv8BvLxBoX7mKDW3X8awMmF9-nciYASjSumAIDKH5nyfSC1VrQTAxsH4_UizjR9py50fTYazdt3t6zGqQv7f-cQ/s1480/stj.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="1480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjopG5IlLT3iNtofiekUNplpxxKFuFsutCHUtO9R-vdbDL-nKPTv8BvLxBoX7mKDW3X8awMmF9-nciYASjSumAIDKH5nyfSC1VrQTAxsH4_UizjR9py50fTYazdt3t6zGqQv7f-cQ/s320/stj.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b>St John's Cathedral, 2007, </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>acrylic/ canvas 30 x 48</b><br />
</p><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs,</span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and
even from these dead doubts</span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">she
gathers her most vital hope.</span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Herman
Melville<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, Moby Dick</b></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times Roman";"></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A HOMETOWN PARADE </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Flat bed trucks haul local stories </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sirens whine and children scream,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">batons tumble through the air.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">At the cemetery </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a field of flags sprouts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Honors for the fallen. Crowds disperse </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They’ll meet at the bar</span></p>
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times,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ask themselves, when will I be</span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some
time in the 1950s, I asked why the tanks were absent from the parade,</span></i></p>
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father said their treads tore up the pavement so they were dismissed.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
told him I missed the tanks.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friends, refugees from Budapest, did not.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">a reconstruction.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Surfaced bones,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">simple stones,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">caribou— </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All rise when Odin reigns</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Walker’s angel </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">lifts the chosen</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to cross the river.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Valkyrie’s selected comply.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Brevet immortals,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dust in the wind,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">staved by bullets, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">bombs, and cold.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Collect at the gates </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of the streets of death.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For honor and thanks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and the glory of kings.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Assuage ancient ghosts,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">unquestioned duty.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Honor, tradition, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and fame.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Revolt like the angels, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">roll the dice for peace and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">tranquility. Embrace humility.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So great has been the interest in the purely military side
of the struggle</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that one is apt to
forget that the war is worth study as the supreme occupation </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of many great nations, whose every energy, physical, moral,</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and economic, has
been put to its service, and relentlessly tested in its fiery furnace.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Henry
Beston,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> A Volunteer Poilu</b></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A future historian may find the war more interesting, </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when considered as the supreme achievement </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of the industrial civilization of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries,</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>than as a mere vortex
in the age-old ocean of European political strife. </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Henry
Beston,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> A Volunteer Poilu</b></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Often I think of the beautiful town</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That is seated by the sea;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Often in thought go up and down</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The pleasant streets of that dear old
town,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And my youth comes back to me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My Lost Youth</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">VETERANS’ DAY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
walk Mt. Pleasant Avenue, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">detour
through the grave yard </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">reset
broken flags at Veterans’ graves. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Read
stories etched in stone</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">worn,
weathered, audible</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
dead cry out to guide.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">What is done, accomplished, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">set in stone we find history.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Hear the stories, our stories</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Who we were, are, and will be,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">where we went and why.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Carved,
etched, worn flat</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">by
wind and water,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">draped
in lichen. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stones
record journeys, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
men rent asunder </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">by
the thunder of war,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
lives that gave meaning </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">to
a path forward.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like
Gilgamesh they ventured </span></p>
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others to carve their stories.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some
ended abruptly. </span></p>
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bullets, bombs, and disease </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Raymond
Lowe, </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born
Rockport, Massachusetts, August 1894, </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Died
October 4, 1918,</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grave marker, Mt. Pleasant
Cemetery, Gloucester, MA</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Killed in action near
Breuilles, France. </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The very day the Kaiser
telegraphed Wilson seeking peace.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">38 days before the Armistice
to end the war to end all wars.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">War records</span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">On October 4, 1896, John
Henry Pruitt, USMC born, little Rock, AR.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">On October 3, 1918 John
Henry Pruitt was wounded </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>capturing 40 German soldiers and destroying </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">2 machine guns in the Grand
Offensive </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">On his birthday, 1918, John
Henry Pruitt died from wounds</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">inflicted the day before the
Kaiser telegraphed Wilson seeking peace.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">38 days before the
Armistice to end the war to end all wars</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">John Henry Pruitt received
2 Posthumous Medals of Honor.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Arlington National Cemetery
Records</span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He is dead, the beautiful youth,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The heart of honor, the tongue of truth</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He the light of us all,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whose voice blithe as a bugle call, </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whom eyes followed with one consent,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The cheer of whose laugh, and whose pleasant word, </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hushed all murmurs of discontent.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Killed at the Ford</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">On Webster Street and Davis
Street</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">two granite blocks with
brass plaques</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maxwell<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parsons</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born 1895</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Died July 3 1918</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Joseph Mattos Jr. </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">born Gloucester,Ma. October
4, 1899</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Joseph Mattos Jr. was killed in
action in France, October 5, 1918</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Memorial Plaques</span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The very day after the
Kaiser telegraphed Wilson seeking peace.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">37 days before the
Armistice to end the war to end all wars.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">....a boy about nineteen
had been hit in the chest and half his side was gone—</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">...he raised his sad tired
eyes to mine and tried a brave smile.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">... All the poor fellows
look at us with the same expression </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">of appreciation and thanks;</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Leslie Buswell<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ambulance No. 10</b></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">OXY-MORONIC</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">These
wars for peace,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">these
civil wars, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">religious
crusades, and</span></p>
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to free the enslaved</span></p>
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incur such debt as to </span></p>
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the future.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some
leaders boast a direct line to God</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Declaim
justice and freedom </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">at
the hands of sword or cannon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">young
ones fall never to rise.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
mind of man is convoluted.</span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">November 4, 1918—</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Poet Wilfred Owen (Dolce
Decorum Est) </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">killed in action in France</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">7 Days before the </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Armistice to End the War to
End All Wars was signed.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">November 5, 1918—</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">One year to the day after
being commissioned,</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lt. Samuel P. Mandell was shot down. He
survived </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the crash of his airplane
but was </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>executed by a German soldier.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">6
Days before the </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Armistice
to End the War to End All Wars was signed.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">November 11, 1918—</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Day the </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Armistice
to End the War to End All Wars was signed, </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bells
rang out in celebration. </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wilfred
Owen’s parents were notified of his death.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fleeing
the potato famine, </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Irish
immigrants flooded</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>into the United States 1845 – 1850</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">They
fought in the Civil War </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">with
both Confederate and Union Forces</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">FLASH</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gone.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dust
in the wind.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remembrance
their only oxygen.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Insufflated
by monuments, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">parades,
and speeches. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wars
that cleanse.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bloody
and dirty. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not
all come home to welcome.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not
all come home.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Immigrants
purchase a place in line</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Join
the fight for good.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Believe
for what they stood.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some
return to what they’d left.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
labor welding the rods.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
backs lifting the loads</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">dreaming
of better for those </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">they’ve
mothered and fathered. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We were conquered because we failed to
understand that Victory is a Spirit, and it is in ourselves alone that we must
attack and destroy Ialdabaoth.”</span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anatole France, published <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Revolt of the Angels</i></b>
in 1914.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Perhaps he had seen Madame Mira</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">another soothsayer.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">AFTER READING GEORGE WILL</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
self-inflated soar</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">high,
on self engendered thermals.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Below,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">tethered
by belief,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">stopping
by to eye day lilies—</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">short-lived
but glorious,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">laboring
for all of us,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">more
than I for me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their
passion begets life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dicks
and Henrys </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">berate
doubters.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Traitors,
cowards, thieves, and liars.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unpatriotic.
Denounced by </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">these
holy men, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">these
priests of war.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">who
battle spirits, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">ghosts,
and fears. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kindled,
rekindled</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">left
unattended </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">while
they ascended.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Destiny
manifested.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ends
through means </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">blessed
by legacy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">leaving
their refuse for others </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">to
gather and reassemble.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">At
Gettysburg, on Little Round Top, </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
air chills on a very warm day.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">At
Cemetery Ridge, a pall coats the field.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times Roman";">Methinks that what they call </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times Roman";">my shadow here on earth </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times Roman";">is my true substance.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Herman Melville,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Moby
Dick</b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";">In closing, Satan muses that the real battle is not external, but
internal to every man, demon and seraph. We must overcome our own jealousy,
fear, superstition and ignorance, and cultivate wisdom, compassion, curiosity,
and the love of arts and beauty instead.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">October 4, 1957<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Russians launched
Sputnik </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">into Earth orbit, fueling
the fires of The Cold War.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">39 years from the very day
the Kaiser telegraphed Wilson seeking peace.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">39 years and 38 days after
the Armistice to end the war to end all wars.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Ah! vainest of all things</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Is the gratitude of kings;</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The plaudits of the crowd</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Are but the clatter of feet</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">At midnight in the street,</span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Hollow and restless and loud.</span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,</span></i></span><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Belisarius</b></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="right" class="p3" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin: 0in; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Monuments</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some
monuments wreak</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
efforts to exorcise ghosts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
are here</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born
here</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
the Earth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Take
care.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Take
care children, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">your
dreams of peace </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">may
wilt and melt </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">in
the heat of</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">sons
and daughters,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
get of aristocracy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mothers don’t raise your children </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">to die in wars in foreign lands.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">to drown in creeks and swamps,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">to hang from trees.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mothers raise your sons and daughters </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">to grace the world.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">During
the War of 1812,</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">New
England states considered secession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peace
with England would end a blockade</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">that
was infringing on trade<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">1860,
at the party convention in Charleston, SC</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">W.
L. Yancy, one of the ‘fire eaters’ </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">endeavored
to split the Democratic Party </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
secure secession for Southern States.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
preserve the way of living, </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">slavery
was necessary. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE
DEAD </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shaw’s men on Beacon Hill,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Union intended.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Still we wait: For North to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">recognize the South </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">for whites to </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">recognize blacks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">for all to recognize the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">people here before</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the Italian sailed for </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Isabella, Queen of Spain. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today is magnificent</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">tomorrow awaits with</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">no guarantees.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">From Mary Chestnut’s Diary:
</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Leaving Montgomery, Alabama
with companions.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Browne was horrified when a man was shot
in the street.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It is war fever. Soldiers must be fierce.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the right temper for the times cropping
out.” </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">WORK</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Extrapolation
requires thought,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">thought requires
effort,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">effort is work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">WORDS TO LIVE BY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beware
the vanity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Embrace
the sanity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ruminate.
Cogitate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cerebrate. Deduce.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">EPILOGUE</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Madame Sosostris, renowned clairvoyant,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">did not foresee the implications of</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the patent clerk’s calculations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">all original poems ©2020 Ed Touchette</span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Other work credits to author indicated in the copy </span> </span>______________________________</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The foresight of man is
short, and his prudence is for ever being baffled. </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The blows of fate are
ineluctable no man shall evade his doom.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is no counsel no
caution that avails against destiny. </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hapless as we are, the same
blind force which regulates </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the courses of atom and
star fashions universal </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">order from our vicissitudes
. Our ill fortune is necessary </span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">for the harmony of the
universe.</span></i></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anatole France, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Revolt
of the Angels</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">______________________________________________________________________</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">WATERS
OF THE LETHE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">An Ode to Charlottesville</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We stood beneath the lintel</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where vistas are boundless.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But crossing to Elysium, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We stopped to quench our thirst.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blinded by the light and freedom </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We anointed others to our rightful place,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Went back.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">To divine with sprigs of oak and hick’ry,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Talk through cans attached with string.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Save the statues</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fly the flags </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">To remark the horrors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The waters of the Lethe prompt serial
delusion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">©2020 Ed Touchette</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">* * * *</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harry Crosby, a graduate of Harvard, and Richard Hall, a
graduate of Dartmouth, enlisted in the AFS and drove ambulances. Both succumbed
to war injuries— Hall instantly when a stray German shell landed close to his
vehicle. </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Crosby died from a self inflicted gun shot in 1929.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was believed he never recovered </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">from his near death experience </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">when an artillery shell exploded </span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">just yards from his ambulance.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">He was the lone survivor.</span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ""Times New Roman"","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ""Times New Roman"","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ""Times New Roman"","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Suggested reading:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Poems of Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Coming Fury</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—Bruce Catton</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">A Diary from Dixi</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">e—Mary Boykin Chestnut</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Revolt of the Angels</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—Anatole France</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Wasteland</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—T.S.Eliot</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Still Looking</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—John Updike</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Moby Dick</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—Herman Melville</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">For the Union Dead</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—Robert Lowell</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ambulance No. 10</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—Leslie Buswell</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Black Sun</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—Geoffrey Wolff </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Op Eds, New York Times,</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Washington Post</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—George Will</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">America's Longest War</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">—George C Herring </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Armies of the Night</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">— Norman Mailer </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">A Volunteer Poilu</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">— Henry Beston </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";">An Ode to Charlottesville</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";">We stood beneath
the lintel</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Where vistas are
boundless.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";">But crossing to
Elysium, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";">We stopped to
quench our thirst.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Blinded by the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";">We anointed
others to our rightful place,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Went back.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";">To divine with
sprigs of oak and hick’ry,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Talk through cans
attached with string.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Save the statues</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Fly the flags </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";">To remember the
horrors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman";">The waters of the
Lethe prompt serial delusion.</span></p>
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<b>Strange Object Sighted Near Renaldi</b></div>
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in Renaldi to lunch at a diner formerly owned by a boy band famous for falsetto
phrasing and, as one music critic said,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>‘harmonies pleasing to Gods and Goddesses.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The chef, Rose Pend, no relation to any band members, had recently achieved international acclaim as a defendant in
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usually quiet hamlet of farm families and barnyard animals, Renaldi has been
turned southeast from northwest in an attempt by Wilson Pend</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">—</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">renowned
barrator who once sued a dog owner for refusing to leash his Labrador during a
fireworks display thus allowing the animal to instigate a brouhaha when a flock
of pigeons, intent on escaping what they had perceived as gun fire, crashed
through the stained glass window of a nearby chapel—recently, as early as
yesterday, sued for abandonment and loss of affection because another resident,
who asked to remain anonymous for fear of being implicated in the
certain-to-follow court action Pend would pursue, because his wife of forty
years had up and left before she’d<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>heard
the cock crow a third time, or so this reporter inferred from the lengthy
speech offered by Pend at a subsequent hot dog roast, barbecue, and political
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Frank Whatson, Pend’s attorney, refused
comment when asked by a reporter for the Happy Valley Sentinel as to his
client’s mate leaving home before sunrise. Later, Whatson confirmed that,
Marjorie Rose Pend, his client’s wife, had not returned home following a trip to Osaflora, the suburb of Renaldi where the alleged craft allegedly landed, to view what some claim is an extraterrestrial craft. Sitting atop a mound,
behind a picket fence, (see the accompanying illustration) a distinguished
object, appearing as a cottage with an antiquated television or internet
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herb gardener as a co-defendent, Pend claimed Roger Delahaunty, a former
prosecutor who had recently been disbarred for under reporting income to avoid
taxes, had invented the story and had constructed the pseudo craft to establish
a theme park from which he hoped to gain a sizable income to allay the pending
(no pun intended) bills from attorneys retained to defend against Pend’s
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Stopping for the night in Elta, we consumed an early dinner of conger and rice, a local favorite, and retired early so that we could rise with the sun and visit the Altar of the Preg. We wanted to arrive before the expected deluge of visitors clamoring for seats on this the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Restoration of Faith in the Healing Powers of Star Gazing. The inundation by Gazers of this holiest of sites in the world of collected interpretations would break all previous attendance records. <br />
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Prior to the outbreak of, maligilitis, in the early part of the century, the denizens of Eluthia County regularly sacrificed virgins at the Altar of The Preg. (The altar sits atop a hill south of North Tinsdaly.) The ritual, the sacrifice of a male virgin in honor of Theseus, came to an abrupt conclusion when the son of a wealthy land owner, next in line to bear the brunt of the ritual—so to speak, confessed that he had indulged his libidinous longings long before he’d visited a cold storage facility to ensure his role as a progenitor. (At a fertility festival in another province, he’d enjoyed a couple of sips of a philter and had engaged a woman without a filter or any other protective devices.) Fearing the discovery of an heir not apparent at that time and a protracted legal dispute, R. Paltry Howell, then the mayor of the township and President for Life of the local chapter of the Nights of Phaedra declared the annual sacrifice a pagan ritual and deemed it harmful.<br />
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Los Animales, a group of cartoon aficionados dedicated to establishing territorial imperatives in a world they feared was going to hell in a hand basket, because they said so, planned a demonstration at this year’s gathering and the size of the group meant any available overflow would be viewing a televised replay of events. Nonetheless, with representatives of the Order of Amigula standing arm in arm at the perimeter of the festival, the local constabulary believed order would prevail. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times", serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">©2020 Ed Touchette</span></span></o:p></span> <br /></div>
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The Indian died, about ten miles north of Waldingford Bridges, a location well known for its refusal to participate in a feature film. Y’know which one. So we hitched a ride with an eighteen wheeler ( the part of the vehicle in which we sat featured 10 of the 18 wheels) hauling frozen beef lungs to a dog food plant in Taswell. Auntie (I rarely called her that because when I used that form of address she’d snarl and split like a Eastern Diamond Back thinking Johnny Burgoyne was marching through her swamp) nonetheless, she was fascinated with all of the gauges on the dash that the driver used to ascertain the operating condition of the vehicle. Also, she was mesmerized by the chords hanging from the ceiling of the cab. The sway of one chord had a particularly hypnotic affect. The trucker let my aunt haul on one as we passed a pasture filled with grazing dairy stock. As thrilled as she was with her new toy, the cows paid little attention to the sound, and she found that exasperating. (Our driver mentioned that the cows had become insured to the sound of an air horn. Farmers had trained them thusly to prevent the souring of product. My aunt remained unfazed.) As well, as we entered the depot at Taswell, she hauled on the lanyard to the air horn and lumpers scattered. Later, one old timer related a story about how, when he was much younger working the docks in Gloucester, a ship’s horn sounded and so frightened the crane operator, the operator jerked the controls too quickly and a pallet loaded with 50 pound cartons of cheese, tipped and fell into the harbor. A woman, somewhat renowned for her bird portraits, photographing sea birds perched on a nearby wharf recorded the event and the roll of film was seized by the authorities pending the outcome of the law suit certain to be filed. As of this date, the suit remains unsettled but the film, appraised at $50 at the time its execution, is now valued at hundreds of thousands. Appraisers feel that the price will rise even higher as the death of the eminent artist is imminent. </p><p><span face="" style="font-family: "times", serif;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">©2020 Ed Touchette</span></span></o:p></span><br />
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More rooms have been converted to displays of the recordings for which Lower Brodsleeve has become famous. When stone wear fell from fashion, the building became uninhabitable due to neglect. When Arthur MacArthur stumbled on the building and immediately, if not sooner, decided to purchase the structure and establish a rehearsal space and recording studio for his band, Los Dicotos. The balance as they say, is historical, as Los Dicotos went on to a successful recording career and wowed audiences with appearances on The Lucky Stroke Hit Parade and American Plant Stand. An entire room is dedicated to Moonlight Cruise, the well known composition featuring Roy Ray in his initial foray into western music. <br />
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The stairway to the tower rooms was replaced by an elevator in 1947 but has since been restored to its original condition. Visitors found the music in the elevator incongruent with the mission of the museum and insisted the museum rethink its design.<br />
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Leaving Fardimlee, we passed a sign for Dell Upton. We discussed the name for several miles but were unable to agree on the origins of the hamlet’s appellation. Hoping a visit to the hamlet, might offer insights to the etymology of the name, we turned back. Despite its history as a refuge for Native Americans during King George’s War there seemed to be no connection to the migration from west to east. The theory that touted travel by canoe along the ice cap held no water.<br />
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Delving into its present-day reputation as a hub of research, where scientists and lab assistants spend hours, days, and months pouring over computer generated formulae with hopes of discovering a cure for Intolerance, led nowhere. So far, any success they’ve enjoyed has been limited to a cure for Impatience with Spring Odors, in particular, the smell of fresh cow manure spread generously over the meadows.<br />
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To no avail, an attempt was made several years ago to generate a salve capable of healing nail cracks. The product, failing to affect that condition whatsoever, did prove worthwhile in mitigating fish odors. And much to the surprise and amazement of the research team’s leader, the unctuous salve proved a benefit in facilitating the replacing of axle bearings in older model—pre 1946— Plymouths. Although patents pend, locals feel there is little hope that the product will prove the gold mine promised by the company’s founder, Ben-Ray Donn. Donn, having frittered away the millions he received as seed money from the town, left for the Florida Keys, years prior. As is visible in the accompanying image, Dell Upton’s fields are slowly reverting to original states although old timers argue: Green fields in autumn are more a consequence of leaks in the drums used to bury the excess radium applied to sun dials and wind chimes for night viewing. We left Dell Upton not knowing how much radium we might have ingested but whenever we stopped at a cross roads, and my aunt blinked, drivers approaching in the opposite lanes waved heartily to thank us.edthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11246604602039557708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14387920.post-92056922143969072592020-05-13T08:14:00.000-04:002020-05-19T11:52:11.934-04:00A Note From Fardimlee<div style="text-align: center;">
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Just beyond Fardimlee is Converse, a town settled by talkers. A quiet village but for the din of interminable conversation, inhabited by descendants of the early abstract expressionists. Formerly, this visual culture reared descendants on charcoal, paper, and inks but today, the residents of Converse rarely draw and paint. Although they love implied meaning, they prefer simply constructed sentences with little if any embellishment. Therefore protracted diatribe is frowned on making political speeches unwelcome. They construct scenes and images with words. Their penchant for discourse has developed into a culture of storytelling unmatched except for the Southern United States. As one critic stated: Residents of Converse write that which is palpable.<br />
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As children progress through their years from infancy to adulthood, life changes obviate the need for sophistication in communication. Residents tend toward gatherings that enhance opportunities for exchange including prattle, gossip, outright boasting, yakking, and confabulation. Words bolstered by images are revered, nonetheless, relying on an image to clarify a message is verboten. Sign language is, however, welcomed. <br />
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Annually, pow wows fill open spaces with wordy riposte and banter. Gatekeepers are charged with denying entry to those who would indulge a habit of substituting commonly overused descriptors and nouns. For example, last summer, a professor of communications was asked to leave the grounds when he touted a student’s work that included this sentence. Multiple people, here, at the Pow Wow for Peace Politicos suffered injuries, here, when exposed to sunlight despite lathering with sunscreen, here. edthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11246604602039557708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14387920.post-15471250151479657712020-05-12T20:03:00.003-04:002020-05-19T11:51:21.141-04:00Cigar Store Indian<br />
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We stopped in Dill Weed for lunch. Since the election a few years ago, when the populous opted to shorten the name of the hamlet to Weed, the area has experienced exponential growth—at least in numbers of residents. This increase is attributed to an influx of refugees from the communes that dotted the hills during the 60s and 70s but were dissolved during the Nixon years. <br />
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A crew of cameramen, actors, and best boys remained after an episode of Alias Smith and Jones was shot nearby. They regularly visit the Weed plaza. They sign autographs and picture postcards. Despite the fact that they look nothing like their photos from 60 years ago, they, nonetheless, enjoy the lively exchanges with people who hardly know and or knew them.<br />
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During our time in Weed, we, my aunt and I, spied a motorcycle parked in front of Twin Feathers Smoke and Cigar Emporium. The Indian started with no problem and we toured the area for the remainder of the day.<br />
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Deriving their name from their usage subsequent to the feudal feuds of the early 17th Century, these gardens, where early residents washed and dried clothing (thus the name), feature an array of fronds and blossoms unique to this area alone. As we traipsed through the fauna, my aunt noticed several animals that bore a resemblance to rabbits but were much too large. Although they resembled rabbits, we later learned the locals called them ponies. This prompted my aunt to lapse into stories of her youth when her father would leave home early to scour the countryside for food. <br />
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Near the coast of Consalvo adjacent to Presley Bay, we anchored. Initially awestruck by the magnificence of the layered sand and the dearth of vegetation, we set to concocting a repast of local fare, hoping to film a documentary of local cuisine. Of course the first course would have to be a digestive consisting of unrisen biscuits salted with seeds from the local borber bushes. Hopeful that this course would ease us into the heavier offerings—palmet livers, coarse ridwol skins stuffed with a mixture of heavy cream and brandied willa berries, and the ubiquitous range lillies to be roasted with the frozen sol we’d packed for just such an occasion. <br /><br />Singuinal nest in the rocks above the bay and leave future get unguarded. Nonetheless, knowing the danger of disturbing their nests, we opted to leave them alone. (Last season several sailors had entered the bay and knowing of the tasty delicacies had scheduled a film crew to record a documentary on the preparation of Singuinal Omelettes. Nonetheless several Singuinal attacked the crew and a videographer lost arm hairs and the lobe of an ear when a King Singuinal dove on her.)edthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11246604602039557708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14387920.post-70031304611268557412020-05-10T09:58:00.001-04:002020-05-10T10:03:31.321-04:00The Ancient City of Quasdalia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We were stuck. In the center of the vast city of curves and power blocks, we had driven the auto into a pot hole the size of which is unmentionable given the limitations on descriptive speech. It was mammoth. And speaking of those woolly beasts, the hole might have accommodated dozens of the critters as well as distant relatives from the Kingdom of Apes, Gnu and Wildebeests. Exaggeration aside, it was a big hole.<br />
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Speaking of holes, we decided at that time to delay our trip to Quasdalia, and over coffee and donuts, decided to spend the remainder of our day relishing the gifts of the ancients. We left the auto in the hole with a trustworthy mechanic and hiked roughly 100 yards to a nearby motel. The Wishing Well Motel, aptly named for the well sitting at the entrance to the parking lot. Auntie promptly tossed a coin into the well as we passed and announced that she was hoping for a quick solution to our dilemma. When I told her that keeping wishes a secret was crucial to their being granted, she quickly recanted.edthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11246604602039557708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14387920.post-78735856882096998922020-04-22T08:20:00.002-04:002020-04-22T08:25:27.369-04:00A day in Isabella<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This city, renowned for its hospitality, sits on a mud bank flanked by two streams, the Roiling and the Turgid. Consequently its inhabitants, known affectionately by the appellation, Swimmers, have so instilled in their get this necessary affability to water, that their predominant distinguishing characteristic has become webbed feet. At the gates to the city, Helmeted Hornbills rest atop Grecian columns, hurriedly constructed during the three day dry period between the rainy months which extend through the Roman Calendar, compensating for leap years and time spent for celebrating the return of wrestling as a professional sport.<br /><br />As we turned off the highway to enter Isabella, my aunt remarked on the cleanliness of the sidewalks. (We arrived in early spring so the dearth of floating sediment or lack of turbidity in the Roiling allowed for a clear view of the submerged stone walks.) We were delighted to see, first hand, the handy work of graffiti artists, who have utilized mosaic techniques to tell the history of the city.<style>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Near Middlebury, where I paint,
fields and pastures loll westward. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The lake in the distance shimmers below
granite cliffs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A stand of trees draws a line. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A stone wall crosses – interrupting but
briefly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The landscape is its own being and cannot be other.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This patchwork of cornrows and lush,
verdant grasses, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rich umber furrows where stalks will
sprout, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">eases the eyes to the deep, ultramarine
that is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Champlain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beyond, near Port Henry, mountains rise
from the waters –</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">not gently, as if to ease the soul to higher
planes, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">severely, demanding to know why you
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once you’ve explored and exhausted all
answers, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">given yourself to the simple majesty
that, millions of years ago, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">was the verge of the ocean, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">you’ll let go of that to which we
cling, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">those feeble attempts to dominate the
indomitable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You will embrace your being on the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You will give thanks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You will feel grace. </span></div>
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Crow and Squirrel</div>
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The crow flies,<br /> Straight as an arrow.<br /> Her shadow undulates<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Crossing the cornfield.</span></div>
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They’ll meet at the ditch<br /> On the side of the road<br /> Where a squirrel lies—<br /> His way to the field<br /> Interrupted by a truck.</div>
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more at </div>
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edthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11246604602039557708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14387920.post-53062454598439774602020-03-13T11:08:00.000-04:002020-03-13T11:08:48.073-04:00A Brief History of Power<br />
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<b>A Brief History of Power </b><br /> <i>(Clearly Visible as you Cross the Causeway to Rocky Neck) </i><br />
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Between Norman’s Woe and the Magnolia shore <br /> The financials tower over Bost<span class="text_exposed_show">on .<br /> Sparkling in the morning sun,</span><br />
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Striving skyward across the harbor, <br /> The Universalist, St. Ann's, and most humble, <br /> Our Lady, clutches a dragger.<br />
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Above all, wind turbines. <br /> Withal, cell towers defer.<br />
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Turbines<br /> 24 x 18 inches<br /> acrylic/ canvas</div>
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Soon.<br />
Sails will fill<br />
The harbor will come alive<br />
With flapping white canvas or<br />
Synthetic blends<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> But aren't all stories.</span>edthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11246604602039557708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14387920.post-10295771692133839842020-01-26T07:35:00.001-05:002020-01-26T07:35:39.934-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Summer on the Coast. This acrylic on canvas poked out of its bin in storage.<br />
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acrylic/ canvas 36 c 30 inches<br />
for more details email eddsart@gmail.com<br />
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<b>Street Dance Under a Gibbous Moon</b></h2>
acrylic/ canvas<br />
48 x 36 inches<br />
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