Official U.S. government poetry
I’m not kidding. And it is better than you might think. The new issue of the Army’s Military Review concludes with a poem by Army Maj. Edward Bryan that might resonate with anyone who has wondered whether they are looking at their last sunrise. It says, in part: …Each day, a movement to contact. Each ...
I’m not kidding. And it is better than you might think. The new issue of the Army’s Military Review concludes with a poem by Army Maj. Edward Bryan that might resonate with anyone who has wondered whether they are looking at their last sunrise. It says, in part:
…Each day, a movement to contact.
Each night, I lay trembling….
[T]o be at war
is to live in the present.”
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Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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