Indeed. It is an evocative poem.
It is hard for me to imagine the bloodshed from my comfortable chair.
I calculated once on Iwo Jima that a Marine or Corpsman was killed every 7.8 minutes for 37 days (on average)
Never mind Tarawa that had a man killed every 4.5 minutes for three days on average.
Both are averages, and don’t convey that huge numbers of men were being slaughtered in far shorter periods of time.
Hard to imagine.
I will remember them always, not just on Memorial Day.
The Great War killed nearly 10,000 men a day, seven days a week, for over four years.