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Since 1998, for 20 years during the week of Christmas, the Messenger Index has printed “A Soldiers Poem.” The poem was written by U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal James Schmidt ...

Layli Long Soldier's debut poetry collection "Whereas" makes transparent a history of Native Americans that is tragically opaque.

Disarmingly simple and clear, Muske-Dukes’s lapidary, ardent poem recalls us to our losses, our selves, a responsibility that extends “to a soldier” -- to a man, to a woman.

Andrew e-mailed the poem to his wife Alison McFarlane, who helps run a support group for military wives, in the hope it would bring some comfort to her friends at home.

Steve Butcher's world was devastated when his son, Steve, Jr. died while fighting in Iraq. In a segment not included in the television broadcast, the father reads a poem written by his son about ...

The poem was written by Lance Corporal James M. Schmidt. This poem is printed with permission. A Soldier’s Christmas Poem “T’was the night before Christmas, he lived all alone, ...

A soldier’s poems come home; and the governor takes a ride Kathy Moody of Eldersburg recently received a pack of mail from her son, Lance Cpl. Gary Adelhardt Jr., who has been in the gulf are… ...

Once upon the capture of one of the cruelest men in history, Saddam Hussein, there was a Marine stationed in Okinawa, Japan who ...

Although Christmas is celebrated one day of the year, it is really the feeling you get in your heart. This feeling was so important to David Olson, that when this ...