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Joyce Kilmer [1886-1918] [USA]
Killed in action in France on July 30, 1918.

• Prayer of a Soldier in France [0:53]
• Trees [0:33]
• [Sonnet for] Father Gerard Hopkins, S.J. [0:58]

Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in Graham County North Carolina:

Note that the source of the bas relief portrait is the photograph above, with added army hat.