![]() The gathering went on without Seeger or his Ode. I’ve included that along with Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France, which Seeger wrote and was to read on as part of an American Decoration Day (now Memorial Day) event in front of a statue of Layfayette and Washington in Paris. His leave to go to the event was inadvertently written for Independance Day not Decoration Day. Rendezvous With Death is probably his most well-known poem. He was serving in the French Foreign Legion. He died at the Battle of the Somme (a.k.a. The poet bearing witness is Alan Seeger (1888-1916), an American. Tomorrow is the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War 1, “the war to end all wars.” Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity.” Claire Holden Rothman, The Heart Specialist ![]() ![]() Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War’s End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Mametz, Western Front, a winter scene, painting by Frank Crozier / Public Domain Photograph ![]()
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