A Library of Specimen Writings

"Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened."
by Gerald W. Johnson [American Heroes and Hero-Worship (1943)]

• A Code of Chivalry
  
• A Difficult Lesson by David Bogner
  
• Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon
  
• A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan
  
• A Last Good Kiss for Dickey Chapelle by Ed Lynskey
  
• A March in the Ranks by Walt Whitman
  
• America Needs to Wake Up! by Phil Ouimette
  
• American Soldier by Toby Keith & Chuck Cannon
  
• America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates
  
• America Will Always Stand by Randy Travis
  
• An Aerobatics and Aviation Lexicon FORTHCOMING
  
• An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by William Butler Yeats
  
• Any Soldier To His Son anonymous
  
• A Pittance Of Time by Terry Kelly
  
• Arlington by Trace Atkins
  
• Armed Forces Honor Code of Ethics
  
• Articles of Confederation
  
• A Soldier anonymous
  
• A Tribute to Samuel R. Bird anonymous
  
• Auld Lang Syne traditional
  
• Ballad of the Green Berets by Barry Sadler and Robin Moore
  
• basic dog commands
  
• Battle by John Davidson
  
• Belt Line Girl by Agnes Sis Cunningham
  
• Between the Wars by Billy Bragg
  
• Billy Boy by Millard Lampell
  
• Birds on the Western Front by Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]
  
• Blood Chit
  
• Blowin' In The Wind by Bob Dylan
  
• Bring Them Home by Pete Seeger
  
• Channel Firing by Thomas Hardy
  
• Chronology of the Vietnam War
  
• Citizenship in a Republic by Theodore Roosevelt
  
• Climbing Terms FORTHCOMING
  
• Code of an Army Officer
  
• Code of Conduct
  
• Coining Rules
  
• Colonial Resolves
  
• Constitution of the United States of America FORTHCOMING
  
• Courage, Cowardice and the Wordsmiths by Stephen Rittenberg
  
• Cruel War traditional
  
• Culture War by Lee Congdon
  
• Death the Leveller by James Shirley
  
• Declaration of Arms
  
• Declaration of Independence
  
• Defiant Gesture
  
• Diving Terms
  
• Dixie by Daniel Decatur Emmett
  
• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
  
• Draft Dodger Rag by Pete Seeger
  
• Drink Before the War by Sinéad O'Connor
  
• Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
  
• Dying Soldier by Carter Family
  
• Eighth of November by Big Kenny and John Rich
  
• Embarrassed by Robert J. Grady
  
• Espionage Act 1918
  
• Fifty-thousand Names on a Wall by George Jones & Jamie O'Hara
  
• Flag Terms FORTHCOMING
  
• For The Fallen by Laurence Robert Binyon
  
• For Soldiers by Humfrey Gifford
  
• Freedom by Blary O'Gary [Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce]
  
• Freedom Is Not Free by Kelly Strong
  
• Gates of Fire by Michael Yon
  
• General Orders for a Sentry
  
• Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
  
• Goodbye to the Way We Were by Gerard van der Leun
  
• Hail Columbia by Joseph Hopkinson
  
• Heraldic Terms FORTHCOMING
  
• Here Dead We Lie by A.E. Housman
  
• Hire a Vet? Don't Do Him Any Favors! by David A. Sodamann
  
• If by J. Rudyard Kipling
  
• In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, et al
  
• Insignia: The Way You Tell Who's Who in the Military by Jim Garamone
  
• Invictus by William Ernest Henley
  
• I Was A Soldier by Daniel K. Cedusky
  
• I Was There by Stacey Randall
  
• Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye traditional
  
• Kellogg - Briand Pact
  
• Lessons Learned ... Iraq
  
• Lives in the Balance by Jackson Browne
  
• Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
  
• Memorial Day Establishment Orders by John A. Logan
  
• Military Schools
  
• My Prime of Youth by James Shirley
  
• My Rifle by W.H. Rupertus
  
• Nine Principles of War
  
• No Man's Land by Eric Bogle
  
• Old Veteran on a Courthouse Lawn anonymous
  
• One Tin Soldier by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter
  
• On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs by Dave Grossman
  
• On the Road to Tokio by the Almanac Singers
  
• Ordered to Vietnam by W. Michael McMunn
  
• Parachuting History
  
• Parachuting Terms
  
• Paratrooper's Prayer by James G. Morton
  
• Peggy and the Soldier traditional
  
• Phonetic Codes & Signal Flags Representing the Alphabet
  
• Pledge of Allegiance by Francis Bellamy
  
• Prayer anonymous
  
• Quiz
  
• Quiz Key
  
• Rain by Edward Thomas
  
• Range Finding by Robert Frost
  
• Reginald's Peace Poem by Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]
  
• Reporting from the Front by Michael Marks
  
• Reporting to Heaven anonymous
  
• Rules for Rogers' Rangers by Robert Rogers
  
• Sally, Don't You Grieve by Woody Guthrie with Cisco Houston
  
• Sample C-Ration Menus
  
• Seven Army Values
  
• Seven Laments for the War-Dead by Yehuda Amichai
  
• Shiloh by D. Worley, W. Varble, & D. Poythress
  
• Shootist Creed by Glendon Swarthout
  
• Side by Side by Arthur Stern
  
• Smile, Smile, Smile by Wilfred Owen
  
• Soldier by Charles Canhan
  
• So Long, It's Been Good To Know You by Woody Guthrie
  
• Somebody's Darling traditional
  
• Some Geo-Political Rules on Combat adapted from Thomas L. Friedman
  
• So ... What Was Vietnam REALLY Like? by Mike Rice
  
• Standing Orders of Rogers' Rangers by Robert Rogers
  
• Still In Saigon by The Charlie Daniels Band
  
• Swinging the Lead by A.B. Banjo Paterson
  
• Taps traditional
  
• Tears of God by Josh Turner
  
• Tenting Tonight On the Old Camp Ground by Walter C. Kittredge
  
• The Americans – a Canadian's Opinion by Gordon Sinclair
  
• The American's Creed by William Tyler Page
  
• The Ballad of Rodger Young by Frank Loesser
  
• The Battle Cry of Freedom by George Frederick Root
  
• The Bivouac of the Dead by Theodore O'Hara
  
• The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  
• The Conquerors by Phyllis McGinley
  
• The Day It Snowed In Vietnam by Jim Schueckler
  
• The Declaration of Arbroath by Bernard de Linton
  
• The Easter Egg by Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]
  
• The Enemy in Your Hands MACV
  
• The Hand that Signed the Paper by Dylan Thomas
  
• The Hearts-and-Minds Myth by Ralph Peters
  
• The History of Rank by The Institute of Heraldry
  
• The Last Fallen Hero by The Charlie Daniels Band
  
• The Last Laugh by Wilfred Owen
  
• The Legacy of Tet by J.R. Dunn
  
• The Low Road anonymous
  
• The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy
  
• The Next War by Wilfred Owen
  
• The Night Watch by William T. Edmonds
  
• The Nomenclature of Martial Knives and Related Cutlery Terms FORTHCOMING
  
• The Price of Duty by James Webb
  
• There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere by Bob Miller & Paul Roberts
  
• The Soldier Has Come Home by Barry Sadler
  
• The Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
  
• The Times, They Are a-Changin' by Bob Dylan
  
• The Toys of Peace by Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]
  
• The Unrest-Cure by Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]
  
• The War Drags On by Donovan Leitch
  
• The Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
  
• They're Either Too Young Or Too Old by Frank Loesser & Arthur Schwartz
  
• This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong by Edward Thomas
  
• Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! by George Frederick Root
  
• True Face of the Vietnam Vet by Malcolm McConnell
  
• Two Soldiers traditional
  
• UCMJ Punitive Articles
  
• UCMJ Riot Act
  
• Universal Soldier by Buffy Sainte Marie
  
• V-Home
  
• Waiting for the Barbarians by Constantine P. Cavafy
  
• War Baby by Mick Jagger
  
• War is Kind by Stephen Crane
  
• War Pigs by Black Sabbath
  
• War Powers Act
  
• Was My Brother In The Battle? by Stephen Foster
  
• We All Got That S.O.B. by Richard X
  
• What a Soldier Gives anonymous
  
• What the Flag Means by Mark Heffron
  
• What the Soldier Did anonymous
  
• Where Have All The Flowers Gone? by Pete Seeger & Joe Hickerson
  
• Wild West Show by Big & Rich
  
• Willie McBride's Reply by Stephen L. Suffet
  
• Why is the Colonel Called Kernal? by Raymond Oliver
  
• Yankee Doodle traditional
  
• You've Got to Stand for Something by Aaron Tippin
  

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