<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=125078" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Harry Wilmans</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was just turned twenty-one, <br>And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent, <br>Made a speech in Bindle’s Opera House. <br>“The honor of the flag must be upheld,” he said, <br>“Whether it be assailed by a barbarous tribe of Tagalogs <br>Or the greatest power in Europe.” <br>And we cheered and cheered the speech and the flag he waved <br>As he spoke. <br>And I went to the war in spite of my father, <br>And followed the flag till I saw it raised <br>By our camp in a rice field near Manila, <br>And all of us cheered and cheered it. <br>But there were flies and poisonous things; <br>And there was the deadly water, <br>And the cruel heat, <br>And the sickening, putrid food; <br>And the smell of the trench just back of the tents <br>Where the soldiers went to empty themselves; <br>And there were the whores who followed us, full of syphilis; <br>And beastly acts between ourselves or alone, <br>With bullying, hatred, degradation among us, <br>And days of loathing and nights of fear <br>To the hour of the charge through the steaming swamp, <br>Following the flag, <br>Till I fell with a scream, shot through the guts. <br>Now there’s a flag over me in Spoon River! <br>A flag! A flag!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</a> from <i>Spoon River Anthology</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=125078" data-title="Harry Wilmans de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I was just turned twenty-one, /And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent, /Made a speech in Bindle’s Opera House. /“The honor of the flag must be upheld,” he said, /“Whether it be assailed by a barbarous tribe of Tagalogs /Or..."></div> </div> </div>

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