Courtesy of Don Livingston, here’s Mark Twain’s version of the celebration of the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens, and the bombing, burning, rape, pillage and plunder of entire cities that is taught to American school children as “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” “Mine eyes have seen the orgy of he Launching of the Sword He is searching out the hoardings where the stranger’s wealth is stored; He hath loosed his fateful lightnings and with woe and death has scored; His lust is marching on. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling … Continue reading Battle Hymn of the Republic — Mark Twain Version