Comments on: When War Shall Cease http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/05/30/when-war-shall-cease/ Where our past is never very long ago Fri, 24 May 2013 02:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Grant http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/05/30/when-war-shall-cease/comment-page-1/#comment-68524 Grant Mon, 30 May 2011 19:46:06 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=8040#comment-68524 CurtA-
We may have been thinking or at least typing at the same time. Thanks for the detail and the song. Looks like it fits the tune of “Marching through Georgia”

]]> By: CurtA http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/05/30/when-war-shall-cease/comment-page-1/#comment-68506 CurtA Mon, 30 May 2011 18:09:16 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=8040#comment-68506 Ardis, thank you. Very fitting for Memorial Day.The timing of the Instructor article was aloso good, just six months after the USA declared war on Spain which led to American forces being sent to Cuba and later to the Philippines. There was a struggle among Church leaders on the decision whether the Church would support the war, Brigham Young Jr. being strongly anti-war. In the end, Elder Young lost the debate and the Church supported the enlistment of LDS members in several units that fought in the war. In the Philippine battles near Manila, a nephew of Brigham Young, Harry Augustus Young was killed and a grand-nephew of President young, John Grainger Young was killed soon after.

One Utah soldier wrote the following “Battle Song of Utah”:

Clear the guns for action, boys, we are strong and brave and true.

Rouse and do the noble deeds you came so far to do.

Strike a blow of vengeance for our murdered boys in blue,

While we are fighting at Manila.

Chorus

Hurrah! Hurrah! for Utah and her crew.

Hurrah! hurrah! for Pennsylvania too.

We’ll give them what we said we would, when we first donned the blue

while we are fighting at Manila.

]]> By: Grant http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/05/30/when-war-shall-cease/comment-page-1/#comment-68501 Grant Mon, 30 May 2011 17:54:32 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=8040#comment-68501 25 April 1898, US Declaration of War against Spain (just for a little context).

]]> By: Ellen http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/05/30/when-war-shall-cease/comment-page-1/#comment-68479 Ellen Mon, 30 May 2011 14:42:24 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=8040#comment-68479 Amen.

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