I received the following from a dear friend:
Hi Jeff,
I was surfing around looking for stuff for my upcoming Vietnam reunion and tripped over this website and more importantly this hymn sung by the West Point Choir. Turn up your speakers and listen. It gives me goose bumps it's so beautiful.
http://www.ichiban1.org/html/bnkia.htm#
After surfing the web a bit and listening to the song over and over and over, I decided to post it here on the Warrior SOS blog. Enjoy!
God bless all those who've served or are serving.
"The Mansions of the Lord"
To fallen soldiers let us sing
where no rockets fly nor bullets wing
Our broken brothers let us bring
to the mansions of the Lord
No more bleeding no more fight
No prayers pleading through the night
just divine embrace, eternal light
in the mansions of the Lord
Where no mothers cry and no children weep
We will stand and guard tho the angels sleep
All through the ages safely keep the mansions of the Lord
"Mansions of the Lord" is a hymn written by Randall Wallace and set to the music of Nick Glennie-Smith.
"Mansions" was originally written for the 2002 film We Were Soldiers, and was performed by the United States Military Academy Glee Club.
I'm reminded of a Bible verse in the book of Revelations (21:4):
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain."
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