. The Negro and the flag : at the nation's service . er was more thanfive miles away from the cotton plantation until a few weeks ago. Next tohim is the porter who always helped us from the train at the Chicago sta-tion. Then comes the owner of a store in New York, an editor from Texas,a carpenter from Georgia, a bricklayer from Tennessee. Still they sons and husbands of wives. Men. Men of the kind that futurepoets will sing of as one has sung of the heroes of other days: Plain, common men of every day,\\ ho left their homes to march perish on the battle common me

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. The Negro and the flag : at the nation's service . er was more thanfive miles away from the cotton plantation until a few weeks ago. Next tohim is the porter who always helped us from the train at the Chicago sta-tion. Then comes the owner of a store in New York, an editor from Texas,a carpenter from Georgia, a bricklayer from Tennessee. Still they sons and husbands of wives. Men. Men of the kind that futurepoets will sing of as one has sung of the heroes of other days: Plain, common men of every day,\\ ho left their homes to march perish on the battle common men will do again;To lift a ghastly, glazing eyeUp to a lurid, stranger skyUntil it sees a painted rag—The same old common, spangled flag—And then to die, and testifyTo all the ages, far and coinmonplace it is to die. RESPONSIVE READING—The Nation Le,\der—Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one —.d thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heartand with all thy soul, and with all thy might. •^rvlc* Fluil.

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