Home From The Hill by James Dietz

Limited Edition Print  750 Public Edition250 Publisher Proof Edition100 Artist Proof Edition Image Size: 25"w x 12 1/2"h Overall Size: 31"w x 19"h Hand signed and numbered by the artist, James Dietz. Includes certificate of authenticity. Under the wide and starry skyDig the grave and let me die.Glad did I live and glad did I dieAnd I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me:Here he lies where he longs to be.Home is the sailor, home from seaAnd the hunter home from the hill.  --R. L. Stevenson War by its very nature involves sacrifice and loss in equal measure. This is especially true when so many pay the ultimate price and do so before their time, cutting short a life of promises unfulfilled. War offers few moments of reflection, sorrow or circumspection. In all the wars in which Americans have fought—from the American Revolution to present day conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, the soldiers in the rifle squads, platoons and companies have felt the loss in an up-cl