Cover of SAY BROTHERS WILL YOU MEET US in 2001 - in Washington National Cathedral during the official ceremony commemorating the victims of nine.eleven, accompanied by the cathedral's Great Organ and the entire congregation; hell of an occasion to sing this hymn (entirely), hell of a place too: seven ornamental keystones in the cathedral's Lincoln Bay depict the hymn's most striking images; in John Stauffer & Benjamin Soskis' biography of the song (The Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Oxford University Press, 2013) every chapter is illustrated with these keystones, while in the central boss five Union soldiers are depicted around a canon's mouth and the word "Hallelujah"
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