Today, October 25th, is St Crispin’s Day. For those of us who were educated, learning about that dead white male Shakespeare (or Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, but that’s a whole other story). One of his many quotes is a stirring:
“From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
William Shakespeare, Henry V
You can go HERE if you want the full quote from Act IV, scene 3.
And of course for the non-readers or the visual learners we have THIS.