He fought in Europe in World War II and he killed a German soldier during a battle in Holland. He described how it felt in a poem. I shot a man yesterday And much to my surprise, The strangest ...

Since 1998, for 20 years during the week of Christmas, the Messenger Index has printed “A Soldiers Poem.” The poem was written by U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal James Schmidt in 1986.

But nothing can replace that poem, which value-less to anyone but invaluable to the fallen soldier's family."He would say that poem was encouraging and positive, and that's what he was," said ...

He received it from a Twitter pal of his and asked that we pass it on. It’s a simple video, a poem titled ‘A Soldier’s Christmas.’ It’s written by Michael Marks. We didn’t know him ...

Disarmingly simple and clear, Muske-Dukes’s lapidary, ardent poem recalls us to our losses, our selves, a responsibility that extends “to a soldier” -- to a man, to a woman. (Also of ...

To honor them, I wrote the poem and went around on Christmas Eve and put it under the doors of US soldiers assigned to Yongsan. Over the years the text of "Merry Christmas, My Friend" has been ...

Jim Rolfes was a veteran selected to go on Midwest Honor Flight Mission 26 out of Sioux City on Tuesday, June 3. Rolfes has ...

Russia launched relentless assaults that killed thousands of Ukrainian soldiers. Kryvtsov, who had thousands of followers on social media, would read them his poems from a dugout, often sitting ...