Anna Citrino—Poetry, Place, Pilgrimage – A journey through words into life
Description: Stories, Dreams, Imagination, Soul
On July 1, 2016, I published a post about the Battle of the Somme, one of the greatest military disasters of all time. The battle lasted four and a half months, claimed more than a million casualties on both sides. The British and French forces gained a total of six miles of mud.
I’m reposting the section which outlined the story of Alan Seeger, Pete Seeger’s uncle, who was a young poet and expat in Paris in 1914. He loved France so much that he joined the Foreign Legion to defend his adopted land. His unit went into battle at 4:00 pm on July first and Alan did not survive.
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Anna Citrino—Poetry, Place, Pilgrimage – A journey through words into life