He was 19 years old when he went to war. Later in his life, while I was growing up, he was a Sunday School teacher for 12-year-old boys in our church. Dad’s favorite Christmas hymn was, “I Heard the ...

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day' Made immortal by recordings from ... Longfellow, an ardent New England abolitionist and pacifist during the Civil War whose entire family supported the Union ...

as he wrote the words to a poem that has become known as “I heard the bells on Christmas Day.” It was 1863. The Civil War was raging. Longfellow had lost his wife in a fiery accident and his ...

For “Christmas Day” is no mere ... hears the Christmas bells and bitterly notes the irony of sayings like “peace on earth, good will to men” during the Civil War. But the bells continue ...

Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that's supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen service members, but it's come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of travel and ...

“White Christmas” May Have Signaled the End of the Vietnam War, but Soldiers Had Their Own Musical Associations The 1970s were swimming with great music, and a lot of that music helped get ...