Sunday, December 12, 2004

President Reagan’s funeral was back in June and yet I still get a consistent amount of traffic from searches on “Mansions of the Lord.” Taking a peek at the link, I see that I am ranked #2, below NPR’s coverage of the funeral. Cool.

Listeners of Laura Ingraham‘s radio show will know that the composer of the lyrics for that song is the same guy who wrote the screenplays for Braveheart and We Were Soldiers, in addition to writing novels. His name is Randall Wallace, and he wrote that song for We Were Soldiers. He’s a great patriot who understands the sacrifice required and given for the cause of freedom. If you haven’t seen those two movies yet, then you must rent them and rectify that mistake post haste.

For those looking for the lyrics to the song, I originally posted them here.

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 though the angels sleep
Through the ages safely keep
The Mansions of the Lord.

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