Joe Hill Quotes

When Harper Was In Among The Stones She Could See Brass Plaques Screwed Into The Towering Pillars Of Granite. One Listed The Names Of Seventeen Boys Who Had Died In The Mud Of Eastern France During The First World War. Another Listed The Names Of Thirty-four Boys Who Had Died On The Beaches Of Western France During The Second. Harper Thought All Tombstones Should Be This Size, That The Small Blocks To Be Found In Most Graveyards Did Not Even Begin To Express The Sickening Enormity Of Losing A Virgin Son, Thousands Of Miles Away, In The Muck And Cold. You Needed Something So Big You Felt It Might Topple Over And Crush You.

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