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Thank you for sharing this Bentfeather. I made time to read the links and it took me many places today.

There were three stories that I read with the first link.

One of them titled;

The Enlistment

I have thought about the enlistment process many times in my life. What people must go through before ever entering a war.

I have always wondered about how a Drill Sergeant is made. After reading this story, it seems like it takes another Drill Sergeant along the way to influence another. This would be a very hard task. All the many ways we can effect anothers life, furthering them along.

I pondered all the war movies we see. There are some movies that just take us into basic training. I thought about Louis Gossett Jr. in the role of Emil Foley, he was no nonsense! Another movie "To the Shores of Tripoli," the training scenes. Randolph Scott, John Payne...

The links journeyed me.
There is piano music linked to the `Enlistment` also to the other two stories, one of the stories being "Sentry At Arms," I think the song

"America The Beautiful"

is linked to "The Enlistment" story and this piano style of this is one of my most favorite. It really is worth the time to listen for us who enjoy "America The Beautiful" and piano.

The writing of "America The Beautiful" poem is so intriguing just in itself. The author Katharine L. Bates was inspired on an expedition to the summet of Pikes Peak.

Imagine sitting on the top of a summet at 14,000 feet observing all this wonderous beauty.

Here is a note that she wrote;

"One day some of the other teachers and I decided to go on a trip to 14,000-foot Pikes Peak.
We hired a prairie wagon. Near the top we had to leave the wagon and go the rest of the way on mules. I was very tired. But when I saw the view, I felt great joy. All the wonder of America seemed displayed there, with the sea-like expanse."

She wrote the original version in 1893.

The second version in 1904

Her final version in 1913

One of the things I learned today was that this poem, the song, was not always sung to the tune we know as Materna" by Samuel A. Ward. He composed this 1882. Nearly a decade before this poem was written! Two years after it was written, it was sung to nearly any popular or folk tune that would fit the lyrics. "Auld Lang Syne" being the most widely heard. The words were published together with "Materna" in 1910, yet still took time to come into its own as we have come know it today.

Thank you Bentfeather again for this beautiful Link. I went away from there and into the meadows of discovery. Today my life is so much more enriched.

Is anybody aware of an old movie titled "Tripoli" ?

I think it came before the movie "To the Shores of Tripoli"

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Hardtack, cheese,and glorious `Tomatoes!` Only 99 cents # they were $3.59# here!

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