OT: Memorial Day Music Thread
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Letter To Mrs. Bixby (Saving Private Ryan)
Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.
Dear Madam,--
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.
Dear Madam,--
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
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Great thread, many, many excellent songs.
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The Greatest Generation NORMANDY
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And yet another version by the recently deceased Harry Belafonte. This version is slower, but should bring a tear to your eye.
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For a lot of years, I took this song as Dylan's indictment of jingoism and the American military-industrial complex. Then, I saw Dylan in concert singing this song not long after 9/11. It took on an entirely new meaning.
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This speaks for itself.
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That great son of Danbury, CN.
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One more from Charles Ives. The piece is named "Decoration Day," the old name for Memorial Day.
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This one strikes home. It's a song of Irish Famine immigrants coming to America and being thrust into fighting for the Union's Irish Brigade and similar units upon arriving. That was my father's grandfather's story.
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I Was Only Nineteen: John Schumann