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Thursday, November 9, 2017

Eleanor Roosevelt Quote's 'The Illusion of War' for Armistice Day, 1936

From Eleanor Roosevelt’s “My Day” column, published in various newspapers on November 11, 1936.
Tomorrow is Armistice Day and I have been sent a poem by Richard Galliene called: "The Illusion of War," which expresses well something we should all remember on this day and so I pass on to you the first verse:
"War
I do abhor;
And yet how sweet
The sound along the marching street
Of drum and fife, and I forget
Broken old mothers, and the whole
Dark butchering without a soul."

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