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To: ventanax5

It’s a great song, but not appropriate to the occaison.

Amazing Grace,

Danny Boy,

Onward Christian Soldiers (my late father’s favorite at any time)

and The Battle Hymn of the Republic, yes.

I don’t expect a Bloomberg lib to understand these things.


25 posted on 09/11/2011 11:45:05 AM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: tarotsailor

In his volume, “The Grand Alliance” Churchill mentions that when he and Roosevelt met in the North Atlantic, they had a Sunday Service on board HMS Prince of Wales.

Roosevelt asked Churchill to select the hymns and one of those was “Onward Christian Soldiers”. I later saw a video of the service and Churchill is singing it from heart and Roosevelt is using a hymnal.

Churchill mentions that within a few months most of those young sailor were dead.

That song would never be allowed in today’s PC world.


28 posted on 09/11/2011 11:59:26 AM PDT by yarddog
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