Holidays

For the last several years, I’ve put up Fourth of July posts featuring the Stephen Vincent Benet poem Listen to the People, which was first read over nationwide radio on July 7, 1941–five months before Pearl Harbor. The link I’ve been using for the full text of the poem doesn’t work anymore, but Google Books has the original Life magazine issue in which the complete poem appeared. It’s on pages 90-96…link here.

Last year, I also linked a post by Cassandra which remains highly relevant. See also her post for this year.

Interesting item here on a significant terminology change between an early draft of the Declaration of Independence and the final version.

Since the Life version of the Benet poem is a little cumbersome to read on-line, here’s the beginning part as simple text…

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