{"id":15722,"date":"2016-08-03T19:13:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T18:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=15722"},"modified":"2020-06-08T07:21:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T06:21:01","slug":"the-chosen-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=15722","title":{"rendered":"The Chosen Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;The Chosen Man&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When God created man<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He also made a mould<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Of a brave honourable soldier<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Who would be &#8216;Swift and Bold&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">He decided only the best of men<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Would be born to this destiny<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">A man who would be brave and strong<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">And be proud to serve his country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">A soldier who would march at speed<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">On whom comrades could depend<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">They would be a &#8216;Band of Brothers&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Riflemen who would always defend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">So &#8216;The Green Jackets&#8217; were created<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">And God was so satisfied<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">That he keeps a special place In heaven<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">For all &#8216;brothers&#8217; that have died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">And when the bugler sounds &#8216;The Last Post&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Remember this was God&#8217;s plan<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">For at the going down of the sun<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">you will always be &#8216;A Chosen Man&#8217;&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Written by &#8216;Cassie Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Chosen Man&#8221; When God created man He also made a mould Of a brave honourable soldier Who would be &#8216;Swift and Bold&#8217; He decided only the best of men Would be born to this destiny A man who would be brave and strong And be proud to serve his country. A soldier who would <a href='https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=15722' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2001,190,17,50],"class_list":["post-15722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cassie-hill","tag-chosen-man-poem","tag-memorial-at-peninsula","tag-royal-green-jackets","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}