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Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

079 - Memorial Day 2019

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this episode, we pay tribute to the fallen on this Memorial Day 2019. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links: https://www.undaunted.life/podcast/079 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:14.9

This is Undaunted Life a Man's Podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson, let's get into it.

0:32.0

Decoration day. Sleep comrades, sleep and rest on this field of grounded arms,

0:38.4

where foes no more molest nor centuries shot alarms.

0:42.6

You have slept on the ground before and started to your feet at the Canon's sudden roar or the

0:48.3

drums redoubling beat. But in this camp of death, no sound your slumber breaks. Here is no fevered

0:55.8

breath, no wound that bleeds and aches. All is repose and peace untrampled lies the sod. The

1:03.4

shouts of battle cease, it is the truce of God. Rest comrades, rest in sleep. The thoughts of

1:11.1

men shall be. As sentinels to keep, your rest from danger free. Your silent tents of green,

1:18.5

we deck with flagrant flowers. Yours has the suffering been. The memory shall be ours.

1:26.6

Guys, that is the poem Decoration Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. So this was a poem that he

1:33.2

wrote to commemorate the time back in the day after the Civil War, whenever they basically called

1:39.1

a Decoration Day. So for the fallen soldiers of the Civil War, they would basically decorate their

1:44.0

grave sites. They would decorate them with flowers or flags or things like that. And it is Decoration

1:48.8

Day that actually eventually gave way to what we know as today as Memorial Day. And so today,

1:55.3

I'm going to do a little tribute for Memorial Day. So we're going to do a few different things.

2:00.5

We're going to talk about a few things. And then we'll get you guys out of here because this is

2:04.3

just a special episode. But for me, Memorial Day is a very important day. And this is nobody in my

2:10.9

immediately immediate family has served in the military. But I have lost friends overseas. I have

2:16.6

some very, very close buddies that have lost brothers overseas. And so it's a very poignant day

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