FOR VETERANS DAY, REMEMBER... Veterans of Foreign Wars by Gary Jacobson © 2002 namtour/veterans.html Veterans yet hear the distant rumble of echoes Still feel memories shooting from furtive shadows Still smell the choppers churning clouds of dust Still go into the maws of hell by duty thrust Still every night thru gunfire charging Never forgetting Selling his soul in fevered battle’s pit Rushing headlong to war thru it Thru stifling fears of blood and mud cussed And discussed... Because he must! Why, oh why Does he tears of remembrance cry For boys so valiantly brave Sent forth an imperiled world to save Offering their all for the heart of freedom In copious shadows of war’s maelstrom By convictions forced to fight and almost die His brothers interred in a black marble wall lie Spirits at last in rest and peace sigh Having fought the good fight for you and I Battling despots craving for powers lust Because he must! Veterans advanced in a world of harm and danger Forged ahead to meet the foe wielding hateful anger Fetid smells of carnal death all around Captured in every sound No one can really know unless he was there Unless he too for his country, arms did bear Combating the life and death cliffhanger Haunted yet by war’s fleshly Doppelganger Then, and now, to war no stranger All life resting on his hair-trigger. Veterans, once the hope of our nation Answered in honored pride the call to action Princes to the kingdom, sweet flowers of youth Swept away to ride bestial ogres of war uncouth Carried far and away by winds of war that blow So our world in peaceful harmony might grow Liberty’s sword to peoples of the earth bestow Through foul weather and napalm’s breeze Agent Orange defoliating life and trees Through cruel war’s grim legacy leaves... The veteran gave us his most priceless gift Though war did unexpectedly his whole life shift Duty bestowed by greater love Blessed by the mercy of Courageous by virtue of Resolute in dedication of Determined in hope of Brave by the strength of Undaunted valor in spite of Heroic honor on the order of Bold in the light of Lionhearted because of Mother, country, humanity, freedom, God above Our very way-of-life, all interwove.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:22:48 +0000
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