Great Regulars: When I was a boy, there were still a few

veterans of the Spanish American War, and more of The Great War, or World War I, and now all those have died and those who served in World War II are passing from us, too. Robert Hedin, a Minnesota poet, has written a fine poem about these people.

The Old Liberators

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 185

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