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Veterans Corner on Valor and Memory in a Tropical Night
A fragmented Veterans Corner piece blends elegiac verse about love and memory with historical excerpts. It touches on battlefield bravery, death, and longing, then shifts to naval battles, marching methods, and public commemorations from earlier eras, including Washington and Napoleon, ending with a light quip about love and wedding testimonials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petit Parisien
Capt
Raoul
Washington
Napoleon
Bona- Parte
Alexander
Caesar
Frederick
Cato
Cicero
Erustus
Mirabeau
Marceau
Joubert
Europe
Aboukir
Hospital of the Invalides
M. de Fontanes
Lea
Bonaparte
Lafayette
Sloane
Atlantic
France
Spain
Holland
Julien de la Graviers
Theodore Roosevelt
St. Nicholas