http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/WarPrayer.html text
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJsZCpp8hR4 animation part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsoJ-WJZGXM animation part 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8976796812933863616 radio show version
Note: Twain wrote The War Prayer during the Spanish-American War. It was submitted for publication, but on March 22, 1905, Harper's Bazaar rejected it as "not quite suited to a woman's magazine." Eight days later, Twain wrote to his friend Dan Beard, to whom he had read the story, "I don't think the prayer will be published in my time. None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth." Because he had an exclusive contract with Harper & Brothers, Mark Twain could not publish "The War Prayer" elsewhere and it remained unpublished until 1923.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJsZCpp8hR4 animation part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsoJ-WJZGXM animation part 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8976796812933863616 radio show version
Note: Twain wrote The War Prayer during the Spanish-American War. It was submitted for publication, but on March 22, 1905, Harper's Bazaar rejected it as "not quite suited to a woman's magazine." Eight days later, Twain wrote to his friend Dan Beard, to whom he had read the story, "I don't think the prayer will be published in my time. None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth." Because he had an exclusive contract with Harper & Brothers, Mark Twain could not publish "The War Prayer" elsewhere and it remained unpublished until 1923.