Jan 16, 2010

Jan 16, 2010

This is worthy to add to my note collection! Thanks Megan!


Lona, dearest ...

You *need* to read (or reread) the words to "Mansions of the Lord". It was performed by the USMA Glee Club, originally as the ending song to "We Were Soldiers (Once and Young) and sung often when our sons were in Glub. It's even on the recording they made while they were in Glee Club.

I remember when the boys were Plebes - they had a performance up in Upstate New York. It turned out that the concert was dedicated to Leif Nott, a USMA 2000 grad, and former Glee Club member. Leif's widow, Melanie, came up from Texas for the concert and was then going to visit West Point to fill in some of the holes - she and Leif had met and married after he had graduated. No one expected anyone in Glee Club to know Leif - after all, he had graduated long before they entered. Turns out that Leif was a wonderful, close family friend - a remarkable young man that we were privileged to know for all too short a period of time (we even hosted his graduation party). Christopher was able to meet Melanie and give her more personal insights than anyone else - except some of the professors at West Point.

"The Mansions of the Lord"
Words by Randall Wallace

To fallen soldiers let us sing
where no rockets fly nor bullets wing
Our broken brothers let us bring
to the mansions of the Lord

No more bleeding no more fight
No prayers pleading through the night
just divine embrace, eternal light
in the mansions of the Lord

Where no mothers cry and no children weep
We will stand and guard tho the angels sleep
All through the ages safely keep the mansions of the Lord

Let me know if you don't have the CD / DVD .. it's a real keeper.

Much love,
Megan