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“The Armless Tics by Stewart Stafford Never again, the blustering brass said, Inked in blood, my generation dead, Human meat carved with lunatic aplomb, No cowering allowed from gun or bomb. Lice, rats, and mud—war zeal’s reality. Trench foot and poisoned-gas lethality, Churned hellscape, where no man can be, Scribbling letters home to preserve sanity. The artillery’s heartbeat, now silent, aghast, Shells raining on future, present, and past, On a last keepsake bullet, I etched “11-11”, Through influenza, faint prayers to Heaven. © 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“It is Remembrance Day. A time to conjure up the mighty fallen. Friends and relatives rotting in the channel and mud of France. But the old man won't remember quite yet. Not till he's had his breakfast and read the paper. Then he will let the memories come back. Relive the good old days.”

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Book:The Football Factory

Source: The Football Factory

“Ne'er Fade Away by Stewart Stafford The hillside piper's requiem, Guides old soldier's bones, To slain brothers of his youth, No longer a marching memory. His scars, Valhalla's roadmap, His medals, coins for Charon, His conquests, the beacon fire, His blood scours the path ahead. This churned earth is now home, Weeping craters, foxholes beatified, Barbed wire hands joined in praying, The minefield of life cleared for us all. © Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.”

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Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.”

“Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave”

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Author:Elijah Muhammad

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.”

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.”

“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

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Author:Antonio Porchia

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”

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Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.”

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Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

Source: Whistler

“All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago”

Book:Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King

Source: Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King

“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"”

“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?”

Source: Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems

“Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.”

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Author:Laurence Binyon

“But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.”

Book:The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War

Source: The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”

“And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.”

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

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Author:Laurence Binyon

“Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.”

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Book:Along the Trail

Source: Along the Trail

“Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.”

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Author:John McCrae

“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.”

Source: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891

“The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below”

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Author:John McCrae

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow.”

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Author:John McCrae

“Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.”

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Book:In Flanders Fields and Other Poems

Source: In Flanders Fields and Other Poems

“Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.”

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Author:Carl Sandburg