U.S. Marine after 2 days on Eniwetok 1944; Wikimedia Commons
The moon gives you light,
And the bugles and the drums give you music;
And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,
My heart gives you love.
– from Walt Whitman “Dirge for Two Veterans” in Leaves of Grass 1867.
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Lovely poem.