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Selman, L. (1940). The Stonewall Brigade.[Paint]

This poem is about two soldiers. The first one killed the second one in battle and they meet up in Hell. They fought against each  other and in the end they forgive each other. This poem is important because it shows that you can be friends with you enemies and they are not these evil devils that you assume them to be.

Strange Meeting

It seemed that out of battle I escaped 

Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped 

Through granites which titanic wars had groined. 

Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned, 

Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred. 

Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared 

With piteous recognition in fixed eyes, 

Lifting distressful hands, as if to bless. 

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall,— 

By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell. 

With a thousand fears that vision's face was grained; 

Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground, 

And no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan. 

“Strange friend,” I said, “here is no cause to mourn.” 

“None,” said that other, “save the undone years, 

The hopelessness. Whatever hope is yours, 

Was my life also; I went hunting wild 

After the wildest beauty in the world, 

Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair, 

But mocks the steady running of the hour, 

And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here. 

For by my glee might many men have laughed, 

And of my weeping something had been left, 

Which must die now. I mean the truth untold, 

The pity of war, the pity war distilled. 

Now men will go content with what we spoiled. 

Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. 

They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress. 

None will break ranks, though nations trek from progress. 

Courage was mine, and I had mystery; 

Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: 

To miss the march of this retreating world 

Into vain citadels that are not walled. 

Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels, 

I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, 

Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. 

I would have poured my spirit without stint 

But not through wounds; not on the cess of war. 

Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were. 

“I am the enemy you killed, my friend. 

I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned 

Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed. 

I parried; but my hands were loath and cold. 

Let us sleep now. . . .”

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47395/strange-meeting

Owen, Wilfred. “Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47395/strange-meeting.

Citation:  Youtube (2009). Sing Sing SIng- Benny Goodman. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=183&v=fhyhP_5VfKM [Accessed 14 May 2019].
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A was an American Trombone player that was a best-selling recording artist from  1939 - 1943
He was also in the military.

He  was  born in 1924 and disapeared in a plane in 1944 (Age 40)

He was part of the Army band and played songs in the Army
I chose him because I thought it was cool how he found a way to help out in the Army even though he was to old to fight in the Army.

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En.wikipedia.org. (n.d.). Glenn Miller. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Miller [Accessed 22 May 2019].

Wild grow the poppies in Tunisian vale
Gracing the green of a fertile land
And here comes "Peace" to lay her veil
On the hill of the foes last stand. .

Out of the Plain reared the lonely hill
Like a breast bared to the sky
Its slopes clasped the fallen ever still
And its bosom echoed the swallow's cry. .

Small sanctuary of a fallen dream
Last bastion to Enfidaville
Your crumbled fort is a desolate scene
Where all but the winds are still. .

The winds will rise and the tall grass bend
To ripple like waves of the sea
And time will take the scars to mend
On the lonely hill of the free.

 http://www.world-war-2.info/poems/poems_6.php

World-war-2.info. (2019). World War 2. [online] Available at: http://www.world-war-2.info/poems/poems_6.php [Accessed 31 May 2019].