Another terrific post -- one with a lot of hometown resonance for me (Crispus Attucks and I both grew up in Framingham, MA, though at very different points in history!)
Do you know Robert Lowell's poem "For The Union Dead"? It was inspired by the monument to Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts, written by the scion of one of the Brahmanest of Boston Brahman families: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57035/for-the-union-dead
Another terrific post -- one with a lot of hometown resonance for me (Crispus Attucks and I both grew up in Framingham, MA, though at very different points in history!)
Do you know Robert Lowell's poem "For The Union Dead"? It was inspired by the monument to Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts, written by the scion of one of the Brahmanest of Boston Brahman families: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57035/for-the-union-dead
I had not seen that poem. Wow--what great imagery and a powerful tie in to WWII. Thank you for sharing.