[Past Your Eyes]

A friend posted this on another board. He doesn't know the source but said it was typed on a piece of paper that was in his father's WWII pilot's log book. Google comes up empty. Wherever it came from, I like it and I know my father would have LOVED it.

[ArrogantBustard]

Is it possible that your friend’s father wrote it?

[ClearCase_guy]

Most often it’s attributed to “Anonymous”, but I did find one site that credited “V.M. Rodebaugh, 1938”.

I used AltaVista instead of Google and found a number of possibilities to sort through.

[damondonion]

Hitler somehow managed to pull Germany out of depression by 34; Roosevelt appeared to be trying to prolong the depression in America.

[ikka]

I find that even rock-ribbed Republicans “of a certain age” don’t have too much bad to say about FDR - he “got the country moving again” - they have been brainwashed ... while I myself, of a younger generation, think they should dig up FDR’s worthless carcasse and throw it to the dogs a la the story of Jezebel in the Bible.

[Fiji Hill]

[johnnyfox]

Good afternoon,
While restoring a historic home in Dana Point, Ca I came accross a box labeled “Original War Poetry”. I purchased the home from the original family. The home had been in the family since it was built in 1928. This poem was located in an envelope on original typewritten rice paper in destressed condition. The author appears to be ‘John Hollings Kinkade’ a WW1 Pilot in France and Italy. A founding father and original family in Dana Point, Ca.
This poem and others in the same envelope appear to be original and in fair to poor condition. They are available to be appraissed as to originality. Feel free to contact me for a color copy of my original plus history on the possible author. Johnny Fotsch “Orange County Conservative Business Leaders Assn”. occbla.com

[What a poem]

I think my grandfather may have?????? I just found this handwritten in my fathers basement. I started to search and found this. Maybe he just copied it but I know he used to write poetry and this reflects his feelings on the WPA.

[Seeker1]

The author of the Poem “Rejected” is Gordon Bennett. I found the poem inside a 1935 copy of Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here. There are also some notes by Mr Bennett in the back of the book.

[thewojoes1]

I think I may have found the original writing. I found a very old piece of hand written paper with editing that is this poem. It is titled “Rejected” and signed by Mouse Smith. Does anyone know who this is?

[nhsuz]

I was cleaning out the file cabinet of my uncle who was a Navy pilot during WWII, and I came across this exact same poem - an originally typed and 3 copies - in his belongings. I wonder what this is all about? I don’t know who to ask about this, but it sounds like it made the rounds among the troops back then!