Just A Common Soldier

5/25/20
 
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from The Gray Area:

Remembering the brave men and women who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.


Just A Common Soldier, also known as A Soldier Died Today, is one of the most popular poems on the Internet. Written and published in 1987 by Canadian veteran and columnist A. Lawrence Vaincourt, it now appears in numerous anthologies, on thousands of websites and on July 4, 2008 it was carved into a marble monument at West Point, New York.

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