Seeger Alan

Alan Seeger is a alive Poète American in France. He was born with New York on June 22nd 1888 and died the July 4th 1916 with the combat of Belloy-in-Santerre during the First World War.

Alan Seeger is in fact the pseudonym chosen by Patterson Putmann, writer and American poet to publish his works.

After studies with Harvard in 1910, it resides at Paris where it writes articles for various American and European newspapers as well as poems.

At the beginning of the First World War, in 1914, it ravels by holding up the spangled flag with the head of the Americans of Paris who decided to fight at the sides of the country which accommodated them.

As a foreigner, it is affected on August 24th with the Foreign legion, with the 2nd Régiment of walk of the 2 {{E}} foreign. It is used for the 1st section, Bataillon C, 11th company ordered by the Capitaine Tschaner.

In July 1916 the Régiment of walk of the Foreign legion is engaged in the Somme to relieve the face of Verdun. The legionary Alan Seeger is killed in front of Belloy-in-Santerre, on July 4th, American national feastday. He is buried with the ossuary of Lihons (80).

He was decorated on a purely posthumous basis with the Military decoration as well as Military Cross 1914-1918 with palm.

Its service under the weapons and the rigors of the war inspired to him celebrates it and premonitory poem Rendez-vous with the death ( I cuts has rendezvous with Death ), which was the preferred poem of president John F. Kennedy.

Fleet with the wind the flag! The remainder is perishable;

So that its three colors can be spread,

They made of their blood an insuperable river,

Of their chest offered an alive shield.

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'' Rendez-vous with death ''
poems of Alan Seeger

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