Jeana (Eugenia Howard Hunt) wrote this poem in 1978 to her granddaughter and namesake Eugenia Kiesling, who is currently a professor of military history at West Point.
To Jennie
Holding the Banner
When they trailed
The dry dust
Making bread to
Feed the Spirit
Knowing the shadows
Are filled with light
Braced when faced
By defeat’s scarring
Face but radiant
Each dawn for
A fresh renewal
Never bitter over
That galling flavor
Of the trailing
Insignia
Believing the battle
More worthy than
The defeat
Saluting the endeavor
Morning & Evening
Are God’s gift
From the Glare of the Day
Sept. 1978 E. Hunt
Photo: ESPN article on 1976 Yale Crew Team
Eugenia Kiesling is a professor of military history at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Professor Kiesling earned her BA at Yale University, her MA at Oxford University, and her PhD at Stanford University. She wrote a curriculum while assigned to NATO forces in Kabul for the National Military Academy of Afghanistan in 2007. Professor Kiesling has many publications, including Arming against Hitler: France and The Limits of Military Planning (University Press of Kansas, 1996); and “The Oldest ‘New’ Military Historians: Herodotus, William George Forrest, and the Historiography of War,” in Herodotos and His World: Essays in Honour of W. G. Forrest (Oxford University Press, 2003). (Source: Article on Onnassis USA )