I gave my life for freedom-This I know;
For those who bade me fight had told me so.
-W. N. Ewer
Hellraisers Journal, Monday April 30, 1917
From the International Socialist Review: Thoughts on the War
For Four Yards of Dirt by Art Young:
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“Five Souls” by W. N. Ewer:
SOURCE & IMAGES
The International Socialist Review, Volume 17
(Chicago, Illinois)
Charles H. Kerr & Company,
July 1916-June 1917
https://books.google.com/books?id=SVRIAAAAYAAJ
ISR – April 1917
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=SVRIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA581
WWI, Young Men Killed, Art Young, ISR, Apr 1917
See also: “Their Country” at this link
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=SVRIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA589
Five Souls by W. N. Ewer, ISR Apr 1917
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=SVRIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA588
See also:
William Norman Ewer
http://spartacus-educational.com/Jewer.htm
Issues and Events
(New York, New York)
-Apr 21, 1917
“The Great War Debate in Congress”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=H7hCAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA2-PA213
“In the Name of ‘Freedom!'”
-“Five Souls” read on floor of House during War Debate,
with 6th verse added of boy from farm in Illinois:
SIXTH SOUL.
I worked upon a farm in Illinois;
The squad appeared; I marched away.
Somewhere in France, amid the trenches gray,
I met grim death with many other boys.
I gave my life for freedom—this I know,
For he who bade me fight had told me so.
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=H7hCAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA2-PA223