Owen Garrison didn't shed a tear. Despite his hands shaking, the voice of the 88-year-old World War II Navy veteran rang patriotic red, while and blue clear Sunday afternoon at the Cedarville ...

Two Memorial Day Poems Richard Levine. To Forget a War. It’s easy to forget a war made of paper and screens, a war you can fold and tuck under an arm when you’ve arrived at your stop, ...

Its first readers likely felt an elegaic pang all the more acutely: by the time the poem circulated in the June 1882 Atlantic, it would have been national news that Longfellow had died just a few ...