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Since 1998, for 20 years during the week of Christmas, the Messenger Index has printed “A Soldiers Poem.” The poem was written by U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal James Schmidt ...

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Since 1998 during the week of Christmas, the Messenger Index has printed “A Soldier’s Poem.” The poem was written by U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal James Schmidt in 1986.