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 ...

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 ...

John McCrae wrote In Flanders Fields after losing his friend and fellow soldier Alexis Helmer in Belgium during World War Lieutenant Colonel McCrae wrote the poem after seeing red poppies growing ...

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 ...

As the poem goes on, though, Musgrove loses his initial certainty about “the end of things.” The clay soldiers, after all, are still standing there—stirring him, as well as others.