PTSD and suicide continue to be major issues for service members and veterans. Now, a current soldier is putting deep thoughts about that “internal war” in a book of poems he wrote. We talked to the ...

The poem was a part of Kipling’s collection known as The Five Nations. It showcases the struggles of soldiers as they are forced to be part of a march in South Africa during the Second Boer War.

A quarter of poems published during World War One were by women compared to a fifth written by soldiers. Their poetry reveals how women participated during the war - working and debating ...

Back then, they were known as 'Peace Babies'. The war was so unusual and horrific that it inspired people, especially soldiers, to write poems. They wanted to describe the war so that people at ...

Later the soldier would tell Whitman that his visit ... where the future president occasionally read the poems aloud. In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn, visiting his family and going over ...