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Memorial Day – Whitman Witnesses

Memorial Day began as a way to honor soldiers who died in the Civil War. Coincidentally, Walt Whitman’s birthday was a few days ago. One year, I wrote him a birthday poem, after having seen a play about him. The play movingly used his own lines to express his witnessing and nursing of the suffering soldiers. Today I’m grateful for Whitman’s moving tributes to the hundreds of thousands who made their sacrifice in our Civil…

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