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The New Republic ^ | 03-03-10 | Elizabeth D. Samet

Posted on 03/13/2010 7:15:32 AM PST by MTank50

Recieved this in an e-mail form Jack Ruffer, USMC, Retired, he explained,

Below, from the Early Bird, is an obituary for a fallen soldier written the way an obituary should be written. Amen for Elizabeth Samet. For those less poetically inclined, her starting sentence is a play on the last verse of T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men.

(Excerpt) Read more at tnr.com ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; irag; military; war

1 posted on 03/13/2010 7:15:33 AM PST by MTank50
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To: MTank50

You have more insight to TS Eliot’s poem than I do....I recently reviewed that very poem (just for recollection) and I am oblivious to your reference to the ‘last verse’ implication in her starting sentence.

However...the ‘feeling/sense’ of the poem and her beautifully written eulogy has a commonality to it.


2 posted on 03/13/2010 7:34:43 AM PST by Dudoight
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To: MTank50
What a tribute..... what a legacy. Befitting one of the long gray line. R.I.P. Brave soldier. And THANK YOU for your sacrifice.
3 posted on 03/13/2010 7:37:36 AM PST by Invictus (Get used to living in the USSA (ununited socialist states of america))
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To: Dudoight

I just read the whole article. May God Bless all these men. This is so profound What a great sacrifice our freedom to be maintain by the very best. Thank you for this post


4 posted on 03/13/2010 7:56:03 AM PST by johngrace
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