Extra Credit Questions
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02-06-2020, 05:50 PM
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Yes, Steve. Well done. I was about to say that this person was with a President who recited the 1st two lines of a patriotic US poem ... the person then recited the rest of the poem.
"“‘Shoot if you must this old grey head / But spare your country’s flag,’ she said.” In Frederick, Maryland, as President Roosevelt recited the two most famous lines in Whittier’s “Barbara Freitchie,” the voice of his companion rumbled: “Up from the meadows rich with corn / Clear on the cool September morn….” It was Churchill, reciting the poem from end to end." https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/l...urchill-2/ http://scriptoriumdaily.com/winston-chur...m-lincoln/ BTW Churchill’s maternal grandfather, Leonard Jerome, as part owner of The New York Times, had “staunchly supported Abraham Lincoln in a city where anti-war feelings were vehement.” Again, well done Steve. “The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns |
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