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THE WAR AT HOME by WILLARD WATTLES

First Line: GOD OF OUR FATHERS, WITH BOWED HEADS WE COME
Last Line: WHICH MAKES HUMANITY THE NATIONS' NATION.
Subject(s): HUMANITY; MILITARY SERVICE, COMPULSORY; PRAYER; VETERANS DAY; WAR; WAR - HOME FRONT; CONSCRIPTION; MILITARY DRAFT; SELECTIVE SERVICE;
God of our fathers, with bowed heads we come
In this glad hour when the unscathed rejoices,
Strike Thou each little boaster awed and dumb
Before the flame of Pentecostal voices.
Our youth has stormed the hosts of hell and won;
Yet we who pay the price of their oblation
Know that the greater war is just begun
Which makes humanity the nations' Nation.



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