dusty
Admiral
Joined: 27 Aug 2004
Posts: 1264
Location: East Texas
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 Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject: Poem for the 4th |
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I'm sure this has probably been posted before but it's doubly fitting on this day.
By Kelly Strong, USCG (Ret.)
| Quote: | I watched the flag pass by one day, It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it, And then he stood at ease..
I looked at him in uniform So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down? How many died at sea.
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.
I heard the sound of Taps one night, When everything was still,
I listened to the bugler play And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times That Taps had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin. Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children, Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom isn't free. |
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Stevie
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
Joined: 25 Aug 2004
Posts: 1451
Location: Queen Creek, Arizona
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:23 am Post subject: |
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thanks for posting this dusty!
I'll use it in my military scrapbook.
I'm not military - but my dad was....
and I have a lot of articles / info etc
I want to preserve for my grandkids etc...
especially about the Vietnam war.
don't think you can believe what is taught now a days!
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Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage
morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should
be arrested, exiled or hanged. |
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