Remembering The Winter War
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I’m Finnish on my mother’s side, and I approve of this post!
Verse 1
This is my song, O God of all the nations,
a song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is;
here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;
but other hearts in other lands are beating
with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
Verse 2
My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean
and sunlight beams on clover-leaf and pine.
But other lands have sunlight too, and clover,
and skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
So hear my song, O God of all the nations,
a song of peace for their land and for mine.
Verse 3
This is my prayer, O God of all earth’s kingdoms,
your kingdom come; on earth your will be done.
O God, be lifted up till all shall serve you,
and hearts united learn to live as one.
So hear my prayer, O God of all the nations;
myself I give you; let your will be done.
A beautiful song and even more enjoyable sung by a Finnish chorus.
Out numbered, out gunned but not without God.
The most important point of the Winter War was that, in the end, Finland ceded more territory to the Soviets than had they simply complied with the initial Soviet demands. But it fighting for it, they gained far more than they lost.