{"id":483,"date":"2010-05-31T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T16:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2010-05-31T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T16:38:23","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael<\/a>, by Robert Service<\/a><\/p>\n

“There’s something in your face, Michael, I’ve seen it all the day;
\nThere’s something quare that wasn’t there when first ye wint away. . . .”<\/p>\n

“It’s just the Army life, mother, the drill, the left and right,
\nThat puts the stiffinin’ in yer spine and locks yer jaw up tight. . . .”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

“There’s something in your eyes, Michael, an’ how they stare and stare–
\nYou’re lookin’ at me now, me boy, as if I wasn’t there. . . .”<\/p>\n

“It’s just the things I’ve seen, mother, the sights that come and come,
\nA bit o’ broken, bloody pulp that used to be a chum. . . .”<\/p>\n

“There’s something on your heart, Michael, that makes ye wake at night,
\nAnd often when I hear ye moan, I trimble in me fright. . . .”<\/p>\n

“It’s just a man I killed, mother, a mother’s son like me;
\nIt seems he’s always hauntin’ me, he’ll never let me be. . . .”<\/p>\n

“But maybe he was bad, Michael, maybe it was right
\nTo kill the inimy you hate in fair and honest fight. . . .”<\/p>\n

“I did not hate at all, mother; he never did me harm;
\nI think he was a lad like me, who worked upon a farm. . . .”<\/p>\n

“And what’s it all about, Michael; why did you have to go,
\nA quiet, peaceful lad like you, and we were happy so? . . .”<\/p>\n

“It’s thim that’s up above, mother, it’s thim that sits an’ rules;
\nWe’ve got to fight the wars they make, it’s us as are the fools. . . .”<\/p>\n

“And what will be the end, Michael, and what’s the use, I say,
\nOf fightin’ if whoever wins it’s us that’s got to pay? . . .”<\/p>\n

“Oh, it will be the end, mother, when lads like him and me,
\nThat sweat to feed the ones above, decide that we’ll be free. . . .”<\/p>\n

“And when will that day come, Michael, and when will fightin’ cease,
\nAnd simple folks may till their soil and live and love in peace? . . .”<\/p>\n

“It’s coming soon and soon, mother, it’s nearer every day,
\nWhen only men who work and sweat will have a word to say;
\nWhen all who earn their honest bread in every land and soil
\nWill claim the Brotherhood of Man, the Comradeship of Toil;
\nWhen we, the Workers, all demand: ‘What are we fighting for?’ . . .
\nThen, then we’ll end that stupid crime, that devil’s madness–War.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael, by Robert Service “There’s something in your face, Michael, I’ve seen it all the day; There’s something quare that wasn’t there when first ye wint away. . . .” “It’s just the Army life, mother, the drill, the left and right, That puts the stiffinin’ in yer spine and locks yer jaw up tight. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}