<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420167" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Section J Row 4 Grave 25</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Section J Row 4 Grave 25</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Memorial Day,1945</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With aching knees he climbed the steps<br>That ringed the bandstand round.<br>The Living sat on folding chairs<br>on consecrated ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The general turned and faced the dead, <br>His back was to the living.<br>He told his boys, dead heroes all, <br>He hoped they'd be forgiving.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fight was hard at Anzio<br>The foe ringed them around.<br>Through desperate days in mad forays<br>They paid with blood for ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cost proved high, so many dead<br>Still others maimed for life.<br>It is not sweet or glorious<br>to die in pain and strife..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If his mistakes had caused their deaths<br>He hoped they would forgive.<br>For only men prepared to die<br>Are men prepared to live.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if some fool should ever speak<br>Of glorious death in battle<br>He’d set them straight, at any rate, <br>About such stupid prattle..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jack Toffey in his coffin lies<br>Among eight Thousand others.<br>White Crosses mark the resting place<br>of Jack and all his brothers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is based on an actual Memorial Day speech given by General Lucian Truscott at the Nettino Military cemetery a few weeks after the victory in Europe. He served under General Mark Clark and commanded the salient at Anzio.<br> Lt. Col. John J. Toffey Jr, twice winner of the Silver Star, died in the fighting at the town of Palestrina, Italy, which is famous for its roses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><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=420167" data-title="Section J Row 4 Grave 25 de John F. McCullagh" data-description="Section J Row 4 Grave 25 Memorial Day,1945 With aching knees he climbed the steps That ringed the bandstand round. The Living sat on folding chairs on consecrated ground. The general turned and faced the dead, His back was to the living. He ..."></div> </div> </div>

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