Liberty Loan Committee "For those who gave their all"
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09807.01 Author/Creator: Liberty Loan Committee Place Written: s.l. Type: Poster Date: 1914-1918 Pagination: 1 poster ; 40.9 x 38.8 cm. Order a Copy
One poster entitled, "For those who gave their all." Text pertains to a poem by Grantland Rice. Poem has been printed in its entirety and refers to the deaths of 47,000 American soldiers in France during World War I.
Grantland Rice (1880-1954) was a 20th-century American sportswriter who served during World War I.
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For those who gave their all
By GRANTLAND RICE
1st. Lieut., Field Artillery, U. S. A
THROUGH the wooded depths-in the reedy tarn-
Where the winds of spring are blowing,
Their crosses wait by the Oureq and Marne
And on where the Vesle is flowing
THEIR rifles rust where rank weeds spawn,
And endless night enfolds them,
But poppies flame in the fogs of dawn
To light the Inn that holds them.
BY the Argonne Trail their helmets wait
To guard the goal they sought for;
But never a ghost shall pass the Gate
That leads to the home they fought for
THEY gave their all-to the final debut-
On down to the soul's last ember;
And they will know if the clans forget-
Or whether the clans remember
Keep the faith-with the seventy-four thousand
American boys who died in France for you-
Invest-in their Victory Loan!
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