Since 1998 during the week of Christmas, the Messenger Index has printed “A Soldier’s Poem.” The poem was written by U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal James Schmidt in 1986. Written in the style of ...

“Soldier Songs” starts with a shot of a large tree in an empty field in late October, slightly right of center. Its leaves have fallen, showing off the lines of craggy branches. At first, you hardly ...

Iron Maiden dug a little deeper in history for their soldier song, 'The Trooper,' using the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava in 1854 as their inspiration for the track. Bassist ...

Wilfred Owen's poem Anthem for Doomed Youth is about the horrors of the first world war (1914-1918). It was the first 'modern' war, when much of the machinery that we now take for granted - machine ...

As we live our lives we never know the twists and turns we may see through the years. Some of those twists and turns will be ones we embrace, while others will be ones we think we cannot bear. Five ...