Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2019-10-06 02:23:28. Caption as posted: "A copy of a poem written by islander Joseph "Bussey" LaFreniere (1918-1995) during his service as a US Army Colonel during WW II. Judging by the text, it was written on May 7, 1943, after Allied forces had driven Axis powers from the North African cities of Tunis and Bizerte - part of the Allies' Tunisian Campaign, which ran from November 17, 1942 to May 13, 1943. "From the blue waters of Lake Michigan A call did come one day For a battle for our freedom In a battlefield far away We are just a civilian army With freedom great and true But we know for what we're fighting It's the gran"
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A photograph shows a wrinkled, pale sheet of paper with a typewritten poem arranged in two columns. The text is faint and partly obscured by creases and discoloration; a short attribution appears along the bottom edge.
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FROM THE BLUE WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN A CALL DID COME ONE DAY FOR A BATTLE FOR OUR FREEDOM IN A BATTLE FIELD FAR AWAY WE ARE JUST A CIVILIAN ARMY WITH FREEDOM GREAT AND TRUE BUT WE KNOW FOR WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING IT'S THE GRAND OLD RED WHITE AND BLUE FROM OUR HOMES THAT WE LOVED SO DEARLY TO THE SHORES OF A FAR OFF DISTANT LAND WE HAVE GONE TO SAVE THE BATTLE FOR OUR CHILDREN IN FREEDOM STAND OUR MEN WERE FIGHTING BRAVELY AND THE ENEMY FIGHTING TOO BUT THEY KNEW THE DREAM THAT THEIR END WOULD COME SO SOON THE BATTLE IS ALMOST OVER NOW THAT TUNIS & BIZERTE FELL WE HAVE HAD REVENGE ON THEM AND SEND SOME OF THEM TO HELL THE BATTLE FOR US IS OVER AND WE WILL NOW REJOICE WE HAD COVERED MOST OF AFRICA [remaining lines partly illegible] Written just outside the Mateur, the day Tunis & Bizerte fell. Cpl. Joseph M. LaFreniere, U.S. Army [unit and address lines partly illegible]
Taken from the record
Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.
The catalogue caption identifies this as a copy of a poem attributed to Joseph “Bussey” LaFreniere (1918–1995), written during his service as a U.S. Army colonel in World War II. The caption dates the poem approximately May 7, 1943, and connects it with the Allied Tunisian Campaign. The image was posted on a historical-society Facebook page in 2019.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
The paper is heavily creased and the type is faint. Several lines in the lower half, the military unit, and the address beneath the attribution cannot be read with confidence.
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- Collection
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- Original
- https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1238208476387439&set=pb.100063605411595.-2207520000
- Copy taken
- 2019-10-06
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| Master | JPEG | 686 × 718 px | 76 KB | 60df1b5a0fe8… |
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“Posted to Beaver Island Historical Society (Facebook page) by Beaver Island Historical Society on 2019-10-06 02:23:28”. Individual posters, credited per image. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/2019-10-06-1238208476387439/. copy retrieved 2019-10-06.
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