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 in 1986. Written in the ...

Lance Corporal James Hill, of the Coldstream Guards, died aged 23, on his second tour of Helmand in 2009 A FALLEN soldier’s poignant poem has been entered in a Sun backed competition to mark the ...

Layli Long Soldier, an Oglala Lakota poet and author, shared work from her upcoming poetry collection along with several ...

in the arms of his brother. Eavan Boland’s poem “A Soldier in the 28th Massachusetts” is published in “Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present.” In ...

Patriotic Henry Stanworth - calling himself 'just a private soldier' - penned his heartfelt plea from the front line in 1915 as he fought with the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. His verse, ...