Believe it or not, I first remember hearing this song when I watched the funeral of President Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 2, 1969. (I had to google this to make sure, and I was able to find the funeral program outline): http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/final_post.html
It lists the Fifth Army Band as playing "God of Our Fathers". It's amazing to me that my brain remembered hearing this back in 1969, but I do! I love the text by Rudyard Kipling: "Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget." This hymn needs to be sung more often!
"SING * PLAY * LOVE"...My thoughts and memories as I play one hymn each day from the hymnbook of "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" during 2012.
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