Front matter
Reading edition
Copyright, 1952, by Arch Alfred McKillen Manufactured in the United States of America
To L.R.D., EM 1/c, U. S. Navy Killed in action, Pearl Harbor, T. H. December 7, 1941
Smile a little, lad, For when you smile There is no sleep. How can there then be Death?
The Chicago Sun has kindly granted permission to reprint the poem “The Litany of Pearl Harbor,” which it published on December 7, 1942, in June Provines’ column