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Posted by Dan on October 29, 19103 at 16:46:43:
In Reply to: Mark Twain - views on the war.... posted by FRER ARAH on April 16, 19103 at 17:42:39:
: "O Lord our Father, our young patriouts, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle - be Thou near them! With them - in spirit - we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling feilds with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing greif; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfreinded the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with trevail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it - for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the faithful refuge and freind of all that are sore beset and seek his aid with humble and CONTRITE hearts, Amen." - Mark Twain
: How very unamerican and unpatriotic to say such things!