Memorial Day Audio Tribute & PDF
“One of the most powerful and realistic stories about WW II combat that you will ever read. I’m not ashamed to say that it made this old general tear up. Semper Fi!”
This audio recording and PDF are excerpted from the novel Martin’s Way, by B.R. O’Hagan. It tells the story of Martin Forrestal and his best friend Patrick, who joined the Marines at age 17 in 1943 and fought in some of the most consequential battles in the Pacific. Please enjoy the story, and please also share with your friends and family.
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Open and Read /Download a PDF of the Story HERE
Memorial Day (Originally titled Decoration Day)
Sleep, comrades, sleep and rest
On this Field of the Grounded Arms,
Where foes no more molest,
Nor sentry's shot alarms!
Ye have slept on the ground before,
And started to your feet
At the cannon's sudden roar,
Or the drum's redoubling beat.
But in this camp of Death
No sound your slumber breaks;
Here is no fevered breath,
No wound that bleeds and aches.
All is repose and peace,
Untrampled lies the sod;
The shouts of battle cease,
It is the Truce of God!
Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!
The thoughts of men shall be
As sentinels to keep
Your rest from danger free.
Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow