'GOD AND THE SOLDIER'

This inscription was reportedly discovered on an old stone sentry box on the island of Gibraltar. Nations last when citizens remember the important things in times of difficulty and times of ease.

'GOD AND THE SOLDIER'

God and the soldier
All men adore
In times of trouble,
And no more;
For when war is over
And all things righted,
God is neglected-
The old soldier slighted.

-excerpt from "The Moral Compass, A Companion to the Book of Virtues,"
edited, with commentary, by William J. Bennett

My 13-year-old brother had to bring in a poem for English yesterday… And I figured this would piss of his uber-liberal English teacher (who's one of the ones that keeps telling them that they have to have district testing because of No Child Left Behind, and thus is DIRECTLY President Bush's fault. :throws tomatoes:) so I convinced him to bring this one- which wasn't hard, because that meant he didn't have to put the effort into finding his own poem, lol. ;)