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)]

• Absolute War by George S. Patton Jr
  
• A Code of Chivalry
  
• A Difficult Lesson by David Bogner
  
• Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon
  
• A Glossary of Diplomatic Terms by eDiplomat
  
• A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan
  
• A Hundred Men by Alex Hassilev
  
• Airborne Ranger Infantry by Sheets Walker, et al
  
• Air Force Blue by Marilyn Scott & Keith Textor
  
• A Last Good Kiss for Dickey Chapelle by Ed Lynskey
  
• All Quiet along the Potomac by Lamar Fontaine
  
• A March in the Ranks by Walt Whitman
  
• A Meditation on the Divine Will by Abraham Lincoln
  
• (America) My Country 'Tis of Thee by Samuel Francis Smith
  
• America Needs to Wake Up! by Phil Ouimette
  
• American Fighting Man anonymous
  
• American Soldier by Toby Keith & Chuck Cannon
  
• America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates
  
• America Will Always Stand by Randy Travis
  
• And Then There Were None by Eric Frank Russell
  
• 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
  
• Army Blue traditional
  
• Army Dreamers by Kate Bush
  
• Around the Astor Farm by Will Rogers FORTHCOMING
  
• Articles of Confederation
  
• As Head of the Division of Provision for Revision by George S. Patton Jr
  
• A Soldier anonymous
  
• A Soldier's Burial by George S. Patton Jr
  
• A Soldier's Christmas by Michael Marks
  
• A Soldier's Home by Ernest M. Hemingway FORTHCOMING
  
• A Soldier's Prayer by George S. Patton Jr
  
• A Tribute to Samuel R. Bird anonymous
  
• Auld Lang Syne traditional
  
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
  
• Ballad for Americans by John La Touche & Earl Robinson
  
• Ballad of the Green Berets by Barry Sadler & Robin Moore
  
• Ballad of the Quiet Fighter traditional
  
• basic dog commands
  
• Basic Rules for Patrolling
  
• Battle by John Davidson
  
• Belt Line Girl by Agnes Sis Cunningham
  
• Betrayed by John D. MacDonald FORTHCOMING
  
• Between the Wars by Billy Bragg
  
• Billy Boy by Millard Lampell
  
• Birds on the Western Front by Saki
  
• Blood Chit
  
• Blowin' In The Wind by Bob Dylan
  
• Bring Them Home by Pete Seeger
  
• Candy Cane Wars by James Powell FORTHCOMING
  
• Cavalry Boots by Elmore Leonard FORTHCOMING
  
• Channel Firing by Thomas Hardy
  
• Chicken Fat by Meredith Willson
  
• Chin Up! Cheerio! Carry On! by E.Y. Harburg, et al
  
• Christmas in America by Melissa Etheridge
  
• Christmas 1966 on Operation Sierra by Michael W. Rodriguez
  
• Chronology of the Vietnam War
  
• Citizenship in a Republic by Theodore Roosevelt
  
• Civil Service Oath
  
• Climbing Terms FORTHCOMING
  
• Code of an Army Officer
  
• Code of Conduct
  
• Coining Rules
  
• Coin Terms
  
• Colonel Healy's Lonely Hearts Club Band by George Sonny Hoffman
  
• Colonial Resolves
  
• Command by James Warner Bellah FORTHCOMING
  
• Constitution of the United States of America FORTHCOMING
  
• Conversation with Death traditional
  
• Cooking and Eating by Carlton McCarthy FORTHCOMING
  
• Courage, Cowardice and the Wordsmiths by Stephen Rittenberg
  
• Cost Of Livin' by Ronnie Dunn
  
• Cruel War traditional
  
• Culture War by Lee Congdon
  
• Dear Uncle Sam by Loretta Lynn
  
• Death the Leveller by James Shirley
  
• Deck of Cards by T. Texas Tyler
  
• Declaration of Arms
  
• Declaration of Independence
  
• Defiant Gesture
  
• Deliberate Distortions Still Obscure Understanding of the Vietnam War by Harry G. Summers Jr
  
• Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay FORTHCOMING
  
• Diving Terms
  
• Dixie by Daniel Decatur Emmett, et al
  
• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
  
• Down Under Military Glossary
  
• 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 & John Rich
  
• Embarrassed by Robert J. Grady
  
• Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier by W.H. Auden FORTHCOMING
  
• Espionage Act 1918
  
• Fear by George S. Patton Jr
  
• Fiddlers' Green traditional
  
• Fifty-thousand Names on a Wall by George Jones & Jamie O'Hara
  
• Fixin' to Die Rag by Joe McDonald
  
• Flag Terms FORTHCOMING
  
• For Soldiers by Humfrey Gifford
  
• For The Fallen by Laurence Robert Binyon
  
• For You by Keith Urban
  
• Freedom by Blary O'Gary
  
• Freedom from War U.S. Dept. of State
  
• Freedom Is Not Free by Kelly Strong
  
• Gates of Fire by Michael Yon
  
• General Orders for a Sentry
  
• Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
  
• G. I. Jive by Johnny Mercer
  
• God Bless America by Irving Berlin
  
• God Bless The USA by Lee Greenwood
  
• God Of Battles by George S. Patton Jr
  
• Goodbye to the Way We Were by Gerard van der Leun
  
• Grafted Into the Army by Henry Clay Work
  
• Greetings, This is Uncle Sam by Robert Bateman, Ronald Dunbar, & Lawrence Horn
  
• Group Four by Henry G. Lee
  
• Grown-Up Christmas List by Linda Thompson-Jenner, et al
  
• Hail Columbia by Joseph Hopkinson
  
• Hard Crackers Come Again No More anonymous
  
• Hell Week an excerpt from The Commandos by Douglas C. Waller
  
• Heraldic Terms FORTHCOMING
  
• Here Dead We Lie by A.E. Housman
  
• Hire a Vet? Don't Do Him Any Favors! by David A. Sodamann
  
• Historical Perspectives on Future War by Robert F. Baumann
  
• Holy Sonnets #10 by John Donne
  
• Home by Dierks Bentley, et al
  
• I Ain't Marching Anymore by Philip David Ochs
  
• I am the Infantry
  
• I Believe by Eric Levi
  
• I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier anonymous
  
• I Drive Your Truck by Connie Harrington, et al
  
• If by J. Rudyard Kipling
  
• I Just Came Back from a War by Wynn Varble & Darryl Worley
  
• In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, et al
  
• In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
  
• Insignia: The Way You Tell Who's Who in the Military by Jim Garamone
  
• Instrument of Peace adapted from the prayer of St Francis
  
• Invictus by William Ernest Henley
  
• I Remember a Winter by Frederik Pohl FORTHCOMING
  
• Isley's Stranger by Clay Fisher FORTHCOMING
  
• It's Our Time by Peter V. Boyd
  
• I Was A Soldier by Daniel K. Cedusky
  
• I Was There by Stacey Randall
  
• Jacob by Jack Schaefer FORTHCOMING
  
• Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye traditional
  
• Just a Dream by Carrie Underwood
  
• Keep the Change by Hank Williams Jr
  
• Kellogg - Briand Pact
  
• Kum Ba Yah traditional
  
• Leadership Principles
  
• Lessons Learned ... Iraq
  
• Let the Ants Try by Frederik Pohl FORTHCOMING
  
• Let Us Fight for You by 1LT B.L. Brewster & 1LT R.K. Wallace
  
• Life and Death Decisions Weigh on Junior Officers by James Dao
  
• Little Phil and the Daughter of Joy by John Lee Gray FORTHCOMING
  
• Lives in the Balance by Jackson Browne
  
• Long Trip Out by Thomas Pynchon
  
• Loyalty Oaths
  
• Madame Rosette by Roald Dahl FORTHCOMING
  
• Made in America by Toby Keith, et al
  
• Marching Through Georgia by Henry Clay Work
  
• Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
  
• Memorial Day Establishment Orders by John A. Logan
  
• Mercenary's Song by George S. Patton Jr
  
• Merry Christmas, Snake by Robert A. Hall
  
• Military Earthworks Terms NPS
  
• Military Schools
  
• Mil-Lingo Quiz
  
• Mil-Lingo Quiz Key
  
• Mil-Speak Quiz
  
• Mil-Speak Quiz Key
  
• My Country 'Tis of Thee by Samuel Francis Smith
  
• My Prime of Youth by James Shirley
  
• My Rifle by W.H. Rupertus
  
• My Youngest Son Came Home Today by Eric Bogle
  
• Napoleon Shavetail by Owen Wister FORTHCOMING
  
• Nine Principles of War
  
• Nine Rules for Personnel of MACV
  
• No Man's Land by Eric Bogle
  
• No Medals for Moral Courage by John T. Reed
  
• None Dare Call it Terror by Karen McKay
  
• Oath of a Freeman
  
• Oath of Office
  
• Oaths of Enlistment
  
• Ode on the Confederate Dead by Henry Timrod FORTHCOMING
  
• Okie from Muskogee by Merle Haggard & Roy E. Burris
  
• Old Veteran on a Courthouse Lawn anonymous
  
• One Tin Soldier by Dennis Lambert & Brian Potter
  
• On Memorial Day by Mark Helprin
  
• On Recruiting and Maintaining an Army by George Washington
  
• On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs by Dave Grossman
  
• On the Road to Tokio by the Almanac Singers
  
• On the Side of the Angels by Russell Baker FORTHCOMING
  
• Ordered to Vietnam by W. Michael McMunn
  
• O to be a Blobel! by Philip Kindred Dick FORTHCOMING
  
• Our Own Worst Enemy by William Julius Lederer FORTHCOMING
  
• Over There by George M. Cohan
  
• Pamfret and Peace by Rex Stout FORTHCOMING
  
• Parachuting History
  
• Parachuting Terms
  
• Paratrooper's Prayer by James G. Morton
  
• Peace, Brother, Peace by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil
  
• Peggy and the Soldier traditional
  
• Phonetic Codes & Signal Flags Representing the Alphabet
  
• Plane Language FORTHCOMING
  
• Pledge of Allegiance by Francis Bellamy
  
• Prayer anonymous
  
• Ragged Old Flag by Johnny Cash
  
• Rain by Edward Thomas
  
• Range Finding by Robert Frost
  
• Recoil by Mark Spragg FORTHCOMING
  
• Reginald's Peace Poem by Saki
  
• Rendezvous by Nelson DeMille FORTHCOMING
  
• Reporting from the Front by Michael Marks
  
• Reporting to Heaven anonymous
  
• Return of the Private by Hamlin Garland FORTHCOMING
  
• Revolution by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
  
• Ruby by Mel Tillis
  
• Rules for Rogers' Rangers by Robert Rogers
  
• Rules for Survival adapted from Laurence Gonzales
  
• Rumors of War by Billy Bragg
  
• Running Out of Dog by Dennis Lehane FORTHCOMING
  
• Sally, Don't You Grieve by Woody Guthrie with Cisco Houston
  
• Sample C-Ration Menus
  
• Service Call by Philip Kindred Dick FORTHCOMING
  
• Seven Army Values
  
• Seven Laments for the War-Dead by Yehuda Amichai
  
• Shapes of Things by Yardbirds
  
• She Calls Me Raymond by Brett Eldredge
  
• Shiloh by D. Worley, W. Varble, & D. Poythress
  
• Shootist Creed by Glendon Swarthout
  
• Side by Side by Arthur Stern
  
• Sit Down Young Stranger by Gordon Lightfoot
  
• Sky Pilot by Barry Jenkins, et al
  
• Sling Bleed by Patrick F. McManus FORTHCOMING
  
• Smile, Smile, Smile by Wilfred Owen
  
• Soldier by Charles Truman Lanham
  
• Soldiers and Jesus by James Otto & Chris Wallin
  
• So Long, It's Been Good To Know You by Woody Guthrie
  
• Somebody's Darling traditional
  
• Some Gave All by Billy Ray Cyrus
  
• 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
  
• Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa
  
• Still In Saigon by The Charlie Daniels Band
  
• Summer Side of Life by Gordon Lightfoot
  
• Swinging the Lead by A.B. Banjo Paterson
  
• Swoop by P.G. Wodehouse FORTHCOMING
  
• Taps traditional
  
• Target Practice by Rex Stout FORTHCOMING
  
• Tears of God by Josh Turner
  
• Tenting Tonight On the Old Camp Ground by Walter C. Kittredge
  
• That Ain't My America by Gary Rossington & Johnny Van Zant
  
• That's What's The Matter by Stephen Foster
  
• The Americans – a Canadian's Opinion by Gordon Sinclair
  
• The American's Creed by William Tyler Page
  
• The Army Air Corps by Robert MacArthur Crawford
  
• The Army Bean anonymous
  
• The Army Goes Rolling Along adapted by H.W. Arberg
  
• The Art of Naming Operations by Gregory C. Sieminski
  
• The Ballad of Rodger Young by Frank Loesser
  
• The Battle Cry of Freedom by George Frederick Root
  
• The Battle for Lima Site 85
  
• The Bivouac of the Dead by Theodore O'Hara
  
• The Caisson Song by Edmund L. Gruber
  
• The Case for the Vietnam War by Walt W. Rostow
  
• The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  
• The Civilization Game by Clifford D. Simak FORTHCOMING
  
• The Colonel's Lady by Elmore Leonard FORTHCOMING
  
• The Conquered Banner by Abram Joseph Ryan
  
• The Conquerors by Phyllis McGinley
  
• The Courier by Dan Fesperman FORTHCOMING
  
• The Dark Snow by Brendan DuBois FORTHCOMING
  
• The Dashboard by Monty Criswell & Chris Young
  
• The Day It Snowed In Vietnam by Jim Schueckler
  
• The Declaration of Arbroath by Bernard de Linton
  
• The Easter Egg by Saki
  
• The Enemy in Your Hands MACV
  
• The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling
  
• The Golden Road by Cyril M. Kornbluth FORTHCOMING
  
• 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 House I Live In anonymous
  
• The Joy of Anger by Russell Baker FORTHCOMING
  
• The Lacework Kid by Damon Runyun FORTHCOMING
  
• The Last Fallen Hero by The Charlie Daniels Band
  
• The Last Laugh by Wilfred Owen
  
• The Legacy of Tet by J.R. Dunn
  
• The Lovely Leave by Dorothy Parker FORTHCOMING
  
• The Low Road anonymous
  
• The Machine that Won the War by Isaac Asimov FORTHCOMING
  
• The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy
  
• The Miracle by Frederick Forsyth FORTHCOMING
  
• The Moon and the Dead by George S. Patton Jr
  
• The Moral Equivalent of War by William James FORTHCOMING
  
• The Morning of the Day They Did It by E.B. White FORTHCOMING
  
• The Next War by Wilfred Owen
  
• The Night Watch by William T. Edmonds
  
• The Nomenclature of Martial Knives and Related Cutlery Terms FORTHCOMING
  
• The Noodle-Vendor's Flute by Dennis Joseph Enright
  
• The Patriot Game traditional
  
• The Patton Speech by George S. Patton Jr
  
• The Price of Duty by James Webb
  
• The Princess and the Admiral by Charlotte Pomertanz FORTHCOMING
  
• The Real Public Enemies by Robert Benchley FORTHCOMING
  
• There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere by Bob Miller & Paul Roberts
  
• The Road to Stony Creek by Jane M. Lindskold FORTHCOMING
  
• The Silly Season by Cyril M. Kornbluth FORTHCOMING
  
• The Soldier Has Come Home by Barry Sadler
  
• The Soldier's Bonus by Will Rogers FORTHCOMING
  
• The Soldier's Faith by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
  
• The Soldier's Psalm
  
• The Snow White Rows Of Arlington by Hugh Prestwood
  
• The Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
  
• The Time of Man by Travis Edmonson
  
• The Times, They Are a-Changin' by Bob Dylan
  
• The Toys of Peace by Saki
  
• The Turncoat by Doug Allyn FORTHCOMING
  
• The Unintended Consequences of Limited Objectives by Karen McKay
  
• The Unknown Soldier anonymous
  
• The Unrest-Cure by Saki
  
• The Volunteer by Elbridge Jefferson Cutler
  
• The War Drags On by Donovan Leitch
  
• The War of New Words by William F. Owen
  
• The Warrior Mentality by Ernest R. Emerson
  
• The Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
  
• They're Either Too Young Or Too Old by Frank Loesser & Arthur Schwartz
  
• They Shall Not Grow Old by Roald Dahl FORTHCOMING
  
• This Is My Country anonymous
  
• This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong by Edward Thomas
  
• This War Can Still Be Won by Fernando M. Luján
  
• Those Were the Days by Eugene Raskin
  
• Tin Soldier by Stiff Little Fingers
  
• Tomorrow's Wars by Victor Davis Hanson
  
• Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! by George Frederick Root
  
• Travelin' Soldier by Bruce Robison
  
• True Face of the Vietnam Vet by Malcolm McConnell
  
• Turn! Turn! Turn! by Pete Seeger
  
• Twenty-Eight Articles: Fundamentals of Company-level Counterinsurgency by David Kilcullen
  
• Two Soldiers traditional
  
• Typical Confederate Soldier by G.H. Baskette FORTHCOMING
  
• UCMJ Punitive Articles
  
• UCMJ Riot Act
  
• Universal Soldier by Buffy Sainte Marie
  
• V-Home
  
• Vietnam by Jimmy Cliff
  
• Vietnam: Looking Back – At The Facts by K.G. Sears
  
• Viet-Nam Military Terms
  
• Virginia Declaration of Rights by George Mason
  
• Virginia's Black Confederates by Walter E. Williams
  
• Waiting for the Barbarians by Constantine P. Cavafy
  
• war by Jack London FORTHCOMING
  
• War by Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
  
• War Baby by Mick Jagger
  
• War is Kind by Stephen Crane
  
• War Pigs by Black Sabbath
  
• War Powers Act
  
• Warren's Address to the American Soldiers by John Pierpont
  
• Was My Brother In The Battle? by Stephen Foster
  
• We All Got That S.O.B. by Richard X
  
• We Gotta Get Out of This Place by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
  
• West Point slang
  
• 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
  
• Whoa by Robert Benchley FORTHCOMING
  
• Wild West Show by Big Kenny, John Rich, & Blair Daly
  
• Willie McBride's Reply by Stephen L. Suffet
  
• Why is the Colonel Called Kernal? by Raymond Oliver
  
• Yankee Doodle traditional
  
• Yankee Doodle Dandy by George M. Cohan
  
• You're a Grand Old Flag by George M. Cohan
  
• Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore by John Prine
  
• You've Got to be Taught by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein
  
• You've Got to Stand for Something by Aaron Tippin
  

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