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“Along the highway, all but lost among blatant neon lights flashing Whiskey and Dance and Dine, are crudely daubed warnings erected by itinerant evangelists, announcing that Jesus is soon coming, or exhorting the traveler to prepare to meet thy God.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line their name liveth for evermore was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.