Ceremony Ideas
Here is the program for the Interfaith Sacred Service on November 11, 2018 at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
Other Ceremony Content Ideas:
Hymns: Eternal Father, Strong to Save (Navy Hymn), Battle Hymn of the Republic
Music: Loeffler’s Music for 4 Stringed Instruments : https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.559077&catNum=559077&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English#
Poems: Hymn of Dead Soldiers by Walt Whitman, The Death of a Soldier by Wallace Stevens, There was a Crimson Clash of War by Stephen Crane, Adieu to a Soldier by Walt Whitman, The Children by Rudyard Kipling, Recessional by Rudyard Kipling, Lament by F.S. Flint, The Parable of the Old Man and the Young by Wilfred Owen, Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon, In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, And There Was a Great Calm by Thomas Hardy (On the Signing of the Armistice, 11 Nov. 1918) Grass by Carl Sandburg, Soldier’s Dream by Wilfred Owen, Perhaps by Vera Brittain, The March of the Dead by Robert William Service, Survivors by Siegfried Sassoon, Does it Matter? by Siegfried Sassoon, I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger, For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon,
Other Suggestions for Commemorative Services:
The Church of England First World War Memorial Service Suggestions
United Methodist Church: Suggestions for Observing Veterans' Day in Worship
Solemnly read the names of your community's World War I veterans
Submit your ideas to us at Tollthebells@worldwar1centennial.org and we will post them to our website