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PERSHING
dawn,
"We are the dead...Short days ago, we lived...felt/fWMKN
saw sunset glow...Loved and were loved...And now we lie
in Flanders Field."
Words from the poem most associated with World War One
tiny '
fall across a triangle of land in downtown Dallas;
where two-hundred veterans of that war have gathered
honor
to their general. The little park became known
as Pershing Square, when the famous General John J.
Pershing visited there on February 6th, 1920. A plaque
commemorating the WX visit was finally installed in
1967. But the land was never formally dedicated.
Today, that too is taken care of...and, as speaker
Wendell Martin ZI Junior ends his dedicatory address
with "Flanders Field" -- 200 minds turn back, for a
moment, to that other war...the great war...the war
that was going to make the world safe for democracy.d
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Pershing], script, February 6, 1969; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1145558/m1/1/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.