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My Son Passes

Zina Card Brown

Salt Lake City, Utah: General Board of Relief Society, July 1942

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Poetry
These lines were written by Zina Card Brown, mother of Hugh C. Brown, after receiving a cable from the British War Office advising that he was listed as "missing in action" March 16, 1942, while flying with the Royal Air Force somewhere in England.
BX 8605.1 .R28 vol.29 no.7
English
My hearth is cold. The gray ash of loss is sprinkled on my brow
498

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Published in The Relief Society Magazine, volume 29, issue 7, pages 498, July 1942
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