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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1918
Page
8
A readable excerpt from the World War I era poem recalls fallen soldiers. It laments the dead and urges the living to honor the fallen by continuing the struggle and keeping the torch of memory alight.
Poem-like tribute recalls the Flanders fields vision of fallen soldiers and living vow to keep the faith. It mentions cannons flashes the destroyers of the sky and the red earth. The speaker pledges to fight on or sleep with the fallen, bearing a burning torch.
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