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Blown Away to War.........for the challenge
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Blown Away to War.........for the challenge |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA 
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Where are all the smiling kids of your school's Christmas play? Where are all the quarterbacks who always saved the day? Where are all the romeos who swept young hearts away? Winds picked them up and took them far… Our boys were blown away to war. Remember Billy Schneider and his stack of baseball cards? Or what about big Joe LeRoc, the leader of the Lords? They tell me that young Jimmy's gone, who used to mow the yards. From Viet Nam to Zanzibar… Our boys were blown away to war. Those schoolboy faces turn to shock as bullets pass their heads. From innocence to horror as they see the blood they've shed Instead of fighting just for fun they fight for life instead. Young innocence is scattered far When boys are blown away to war. No boys return from battlelines, for into men they've grown With faces aged a thousand years from what the war has shown. Cheer the lucky who returned and, for the rest, a moan A Purple Heart or Silver Star In place of boys who went to war. |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing. Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago. Where have all the flowers gone? Gone to young girls every one. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? |
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Danny Holloway Member Elite
since 2000-01-15
Posts 2034Tulsa, OK |
Nice writing Balladeer. I guess most of us know someone who did not return from that war. So sad and senseless! There will never be any glory or satisfaction in dying for politics. A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives. |
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Rex Allen McCoy Member Elite
since 2000-01-30
Posts 2863Sippin a Timmy's in London |
rememberance days are a hard emotional time we all endure the pain that haunts our memories and the recuring nightmares that we thought had left ... we are here ... so many are not ... thank god for ending the war ... and time does not heal all wounds ... it just slows the bleeding |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Balladeer, This time I'll have to give you a bravo and stamp my feet. Sy |
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Jeffrey Carter
since 2000-04-08
Posts 2367State of constant confusion! |
Balladeer, Yeah...everything they said and more. Thank you for posting this in memory of the HEROES that did not make it back. All my love, Jeffrey I lie awake in a world filled with dreams, but dreams can be so real when you don't know you're asleep |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Balladeer...a touching amd well written tribute. You have done many young men justice with your words. Hugs  Ruth |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Balladeer~ You have a beautiful heart. Your capture of the feelings of those who have lost one to war is so tender. It brings the tear of remembrance to rest upon my cheek. Thank you, my friend. ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
I've read this a couple of times and it touches me right where I live. I was in high school a few years before the end of the Viet Nam war and many people from my generation fought and died there. It was a rude awakening into reality losing so many from my immediate area with plaques being erected at all the area high schools for those who had died who had just themselves graduated a year or two before, those who never got to grow up and fulfill any dreams. A very sad time. Excellent poem, Balladeer. Denise [This message has been edited by dsnyder (edited 04-28-2000).] |
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Poet deVine
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
A wonderful poem that hurts to read it..it brings back so many memories... |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Winds picked them up and took them far… Our boys were blown away to war. ---------------- Young innocence is scattered far When boys are blown away to war. ---------------- A Purple Heart or Silver Star In place of boys who went to war. --------------- I just knew you would do this challenge justice... I just love being right (smile) (it doesnt happen very often)  this is SO powerful and well written, excellence from your poets pen. take care, jm |
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