[Vision2020] "The March of the Idahos"

[Sam Scripter]

*Just finished reading it aloud to my s**pouse.**
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**Heart rending; eye**s watering . . .**
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**Thank you, T, for sharing this.**
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**Where did you **find it?**
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**Sam Scripter**
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On 2/3/2015 10:56 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:
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> *"The March of the Idahos" *
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> by Sergeant T. L. Jennings, ‘19
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> B Battery, 146th Field Artillery, AEF
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> Swinging down a sunny street, 'neath a poplar row,
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> Smiling for the lonely folk who watch them as they go,
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> Lean and brown and long of gait, led by stripe and star,
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> Twenty hundred Idahos are marching off to war.
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> Rifles, bells.and blanket-packs, bayonets a clank.
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> Stepping to a lively tune come khaki rank on rank,
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> Steady mien and steady eye, swift and keen of glance.
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> Oh, what goodly fighting men are moving out to France.
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> Bringing tang of Northern pine, cooled by crystal lake.
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> Bringing breath of scented sage, along the sullen Snake,
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> Flushed with fruit and meadow bloom, sun and wind and rain.
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> Twenty hundred Western men are on the Trail again.
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> See the faces flashing by - oh, the parting lips,
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> Straining toward a Jersey dock where lie the waiting ships.
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> Straining toward the weary men who hold the hardy wall.
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> Twenty hundred volunteers in answer to the Call.
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> Dawn is gold o'er Northern pine, gold o'er crystal lake.
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> Dawn is red o'er barren brush along the sullen Snake.
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> Gold and red shall have their hearts, out across the foam
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> Till parted lips shall turn to seek the purple hills of Home.
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> Swinging down a sunny street,'neath a poplar row,
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> Smiling for the lonely folk who watch them as they go,
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> Lean and brown and long of gait, led by stripe and star,
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> Twenty hundred Idahos are marching off to war.
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> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
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> "Moscow Cares"
> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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