Memorial Day Family Lore

Stories of two veterans on the home front

May 27, 2024

∙ Paid

Father Anchises cried:
“Is war thy gift, O new and alien land?
Horses make war; of war these creatures bode.
Yet oft before the chariot of peace
their swift hoofs go, & on their necks they bear
th' obedient yoke & rein. Therefore a hope
of peace is also ours.
—Virgil, Aeneid, Bk III

Aeneas fleeing burning Troy, bearing his father Anchises bearing the household …

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