Just a Simple Soldier --Please Read

[Mango]

I found this poem online, and think it is appropriate to dedicate it to all service me and women, past and present. They paid the ultimate sacrifice, and with the most recent deaths of US Service men and women I just thought that I would share this with as many people as possible.
The author is unknown, if someone knows please let me know.

**I think you can spare a minute of your life to read this.

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Just a Simple Soldier

[dogEmedic]

Wow,
that's one of the better ones I have read, that will make you stop and think how we forget the people that really do alot for us.

[Hasty8]

That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salibury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd:
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap while any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispian's day.

[oldsoldier]

Nuff said.

[slateman]

Hasty8: Might that passage be from Henry V?

Good passages

[shartley]

Thank you.