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To: Emmet Fitzhume

Spot on!! Thanks!!!!

The hymn Randall Wallace and Nick Glenny-Smith composed for that movie, "Mansions of the Lord" (lyrics below), should become the Army counterpart to the equally beautiful Navy hymn "Eternal Father."

I cannot hear that music and those words without being moved to tears.

Perhaps because I lost at least one friend -- and will never know how many former students -- in Vietnam.

(http://www.virtualwall.org/ds/ShimpAH01a.htm)

***THE MANSIONS OF THE LORD***
from the movie "We Were Soldiers"

To fallen soldiers let us sing
Where no rockets fly nor bullets wing
Our broken brothers let us bring
To the Mansions of the Lord

No more bleeding, no more fight
No prayers pleading through the night
Just divine embrace, eternal light
In the Mansions of the Lord

Where no mothers cry and no children weep
We will stand and guard though the angels sleep
While through the ages safely keep
The Mansions of the Lord


210 posted on 02/09/2006 7:34:08 AM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: Dick Bachert

Re Mansions of the Lord.............

What a wonderful creation. I cry like a fool every time I hear it.

Any recommendations on what and where a recording can be obtained?


213 posted on 02/09/2006 9:47:12 AM PST by HonestConservative (Bless our Servicemen!)
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