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packbat ([personal profile] packbat) wrote2008-05-26 04:56 pm
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"The War Prayer"

From Fred 'slacktivist' Clark, who found it through The Washington Monthly:



From thewarprayer.com - available also on YouTube.

It was written circa 1905 but unpublished for a decade thereafter - six years after Twain's death - for fear that it would be seen as sacrilegious or unpatriotic.

[identity profile] peri-renna.livejournal.com 2008-05-27 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
Mmhm! It's impressive, and distinctively Mark Twain.