True Glory

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By the end of the year 1943, the Allied front faced a crushing defeat, but it was due to the unseen aid of song and poetry that helped revive the spirits of our weakened soldiers, turning the tide in the war. Clyde Chapman, a tortured soul, teeming with arrogance, was forced to witness the death of a long time friend during the siege of Omaha beach, protecting his friend's engagement ring for the fiancee back in Britain. One night in Normandy, Eddie Brooks, an intelligent, young soldier from Franklin, Tennessee, questions Chapman about the ring's origin. After recounting the tormenting tale, Clyde is left mentally wounded and broken. Elsewhere in Europe, George Middleton, a trembling British Lance Corporal and writer of the poem is forced into reading it aloud for the boisterous Sergeant Desmond Stuart, stating that it is for his family back on the Home Front. The evoking words reach Daily Herald Journalist, Evelyn Williams, for the first time, securing her with comfort from distressing thoughts about her future husband on the Eastern Front. Wishing to share her spirit with others, Evelyn prints the poem with hope it can restore courage to soldiers on the front line. Eddie brandishes the newspaper article, and begins to read the poem on the page in hopes that it can revive Clyde's spirit as much as it did with his own.