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Gabrielle Dean

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Apr 24, 2026, 11:55:47 PM (2 days ago) Apr 24
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THE YOUNG DEAD SOLDIERS

The young dead soldiers do not speak.
Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses:
who has not heard them?
They have a silence that speaks for them at night
and when the clock counts.
They say: We were young. We have died.
Remember us.
They say: We have done what we could
but until it is finished it is not done.
They say: We have given our lives but until it is finished
no one can know what our lives gave.
They say: Our deaths are not ours: they are yours,
they will mean what you make them.
They say: Whether our lives and our deaths were for
peace and a new hope or for nothing we cannot say,
it is you who must say this.
Archibald MacLeish, 1892-1982, American Poet

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Pamela O’Cuneen

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Apr 25, 2026, 12:58:01 AM (yesterday) Apr 25
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What a powerful poem. So true! They died for a new world of peace. It’s up to us! 
Pamela

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