Just A Common Soldier
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Just A Common Soldier, also known as A Soldier Died Today, is one of the most popular poems on the Internet
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. Published in 1987 by A. Lawrence Vaincourt
A. Lawrence Vaincourt
A. Lawrence Vaincourt was a Canadian writer best known for the poem Just a Common Soldier, also known as A Soldier Died Today.The poem appears on thousands of websites, was reprinted in Ann Landers syndicated column and received the Bronze Helmet Award of Excellence...

, it now appears in numerous anthologies, on thousands of websites and on July 4, 2008 it was carved into a marble monument at West Point, US
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