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August 13, 2020

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I too watched the film all that week (on WOR-TV, channel 9, the Million Dollar Movie as the show was called) and Home of the Brave was formative for me too, and that poem, ending with "Coward take my coward's hand," immediately took up housekeeping in my heart, never left. I’ve watched the film since, in adulthood, several times. Thank you for writing this and sending it!

“Nitwit”—Lloyd Bridges (I allow as how some readers may not get the significance of this word in the script.)

- Burt Kimmelman

Unbelievable! As I was watching a late night movie in the late sixties l was taken back by the closing line. The movie was "Home of the Brave" starring Frank Lovejoy. The movie ended around 3 AM. As a songwriter including a #1 Recording in 1958, I ran to my guitar and wrote a song using that haunting closing line, "Coward take my cowards hand." I made a demo but never released it.It is still one of my personal favorites.I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one influenced by it. Best of luck! Vito Picone
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Thank you, Vito. I appreciate your comment and your enthusiasm.

It's a poem as relevant today in these terrible cold civil war times as it was then / I've read it many times over the past 6 years / barry k / brooklyn / million dollar movie fan

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark


from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman

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