[Vision2020] "The March of the Idahos"

[Tom Hansen]

I like to google wherever I'm at.

I was at:

http://www.archives.org

. . . and decided to search their poetry with the word "Idaho".  

BINGO BANGO COOL !

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still.
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
  

> On Feb 3, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Sam Scripter <MoscowSam at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Just finished reading it aloud to my spouse.
> 
> Heart rending; eyes watering . . .
> 
> Thank you, T, for sharing this.
> 
> Where did you find it?
> 
> Sam Scripter
> 
>> On 2/3/2015 10:56 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:
>> "The March of the Idahos" 
>> by Sergeant T. L. Jennings, ‘19 
>> B Battery, 146th Field Artillery, AEF
>> 
>> Swinging down a sunny street, 'neath a poplar row,
>> Smiling for the lonely folk who watch them as they go,
>> Lean and brown and long of gait, led by stripe and star,
>> Twenty hundred Idahos are marching off to war.
>>  
>> Rifles, bells. and blanket-packs, bayonets a clank.
>> Stepping to a lively tune come khaki rank on rank,
>> Steady mien and steady eye, swift and keen of glance.
>> Oh, what goodly fighting men are moving out to France.
>>  
>> Bringing tang of Northern pine, cooled by crystal lake.
>> Bringing breath of scented sage, along the sullen Snake,
>> Flushed with fruit and meadow bloom, sun and wind and rain.
>> Twenty hundred Western men are on the Trail again.
>>  
>> See the faces flashing by - oh, the parting lips,
>> Straining toward a Jersey dock where lie the waiting ships.
>> Straining toward the weary men who hold the hardy wall.
>> Twenty hundred volunteers in answer to the Call.
>>  
>> Dawn is gold o'er Northern pine, gold o'er crystal lake.
>> Dawn is red o'er barren brush along the sullen Snake.
>> Gold and red shall have their hearts, out across the foam
>> Till parted lips shall turn to seek the purple hills of Home.
>>  
>> Swinging down a sunny street, 'neath a poplar row,
>> Smiling for the lonely folk who watch them as they go,
>> Lean and brown and long of gait, led by stripe and star,
>> Twenty hundred Idahos are marching off to war.
>> 
>> --------------------------------------
>> 
>> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>> 
>> "Moscow Cares"
>> http://www.MoscowCares.com
>>   
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>  
>> 
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