“Who are the brave? Those who go to war.
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Who are the brave? Those who serve in war.
Who are the brave? Those who live with pain.
Who are the brave? Those whose lives are plain. Those with healthy bodies, those protecting the unsure.
Who are the brave? Those who serve the poor.
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Who are the brave? Those whose speech is free.
Who are the brave? Those loving liberty. All those with heart and mind, protecting all they find.
Who are the brave? Those who serve mankind. These are the brave.
These words, penned by J. Paul Williams and set to music by Joseph M. Martin, leave an indelible imprint on my mind each time I listen, most recently a rendering by The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square this past Sunday.
The occasion was the Music and the Spoken Word broadcast in the celebrated Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. As I listened to this heart-rending, uplifting work, images of my triplet uncles, Willard, William and Willis, who served in World War II, came to mind.
All three enlisted in the U. S. Army at the same time, with Willard being sent to the Pacific campaign and William and Willis to Europe. My grandmother, Ann Eliza Boyes Andrus Jensen, became a respected Gold Star Mother, who displayed a picture of the triplets in uniform in her home to keep alive the memory of Willis, the one who did not return and to honor the two who did.
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Willis is buried in the American Military Cemetery in Luxembourg. We reverenced all three uncles for their dedication to country, but Willis’s death intrigued me. We rarely talked of Willis, but the picture of my three uncles spoke volumes of their sacrifices.
Not until a few years ago did I know the story of Willis’s death when I read Uncle William’s account from his autobiography: “We came to a farm area in France, and as we started across the field, we met with machine gun and rifle fire. Willis was in front of me as was most of the squad. We got some mortar fire and Willis was hit. I was the first to get to him. He was in shock and I learned that a mortar shell exploded near him and he was wounded in the back.
“We talked for a few minutes and he said he had stopped to tell the other men to move out and not bunch up. That was when he was hit. Later in the afternoon, I was talking to a German medic who had been there and he said Willis had talked to him and seemed not to be in pain. I had to advance to the town under attack. I didn’t know he had died until two days later. Willis was killed one day after our 25th birthday.”
Lloyd D. Newell, voice of Music and the Spoken Word, recently returned from Normandy, where he visited the solemn site of the Normandy American Cemetery in France, the burial ground of more than 9,300 American soldiers who lost their lives when 156,000 Allied troops launched an attack on the beaches of German-occupied France.
The day was the sixth of June 1944 — what we refer to as D-Day. Newell stated: “Nothing prepares you for this sight of countless graves of soldiers — some identified, others unknown. Row by row, each small monument speaks of the valor, the selfless spirit, and the bravery of all our veterans who have stood strong in war, representing a grateful nation.”
Those who sacrificed their lives, all those who served, those who “serve mankind”— “these are the brave,” indeed.
JJ Abernathy is an arts advocate and musician, and may be contacted at [email protected].
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