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ThisDiamond
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0 posted 2004-05-16 08:16 PM


The color guard shall pass
Commemorating victory and loss
These undisputed truths
Of such bravery and cause

Those fallen upon coastline
On the beaches, on the hills
And no less upon our memory
Tropic jungles, sand blown fields

Different politics or demons
Innocents engrave God’s arms
For a freedom that we cherish
Never less this truth disarms

So I call to you humanity
Bow my head in honor all
For the truth that war is final
And to love our brave befall

Copyright Kkh 5/16/04



Please join me blue family in the honor of bravery for this Memorial Day Tribute.
Thank you

© Copyright 2004 Kathleen Harris - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2004-05-16 08:38 PM


K.  Please accept this as my addition to
the tribute you have started....

You gave
with an outpouring of unselfish
courage, bravery and even fear.

You, the thousands of souls
who have trod the killing fields
as life sapped unmercifully falls
before you, causing a stumble.

The screams unheard, the terror
blinded to the world, brought
slowly into our eyes..as we wept
our tears and the waters of our
eyes mingled with your own.

In memory we honor, as hands
touch the walls, rest softly upon
each granite stone...of the known
and those who rest without.

I give...
To each,   my admiration, praise..
My devotion to the memory which
shall not die....for each has died
a hero’s death..remembered...

And I stand before you....heels
together, shoulders straight....saluting
proudly....as my tears mingle in the
ocean of souls,  
not forgotten...


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2 posted 2004-05-16 09:17 PM


Amen
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