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Charles
Junior Member

since 2002-10-01

Posts 12
Hoechenschwand, Germany

0 posted 2005-08-14 02:38 PM

For 20 Ohio Marines
[A Tribute from Butler, Pa.]

Did you feel the wave of sympathy
surging across the Pennsylvania line
and out to you,
the families left behind?

We know.
For we saw your boys
here among ours,
in our streets jogging,
in cars, in shopping malls,
in churches, at picnics,
and High School proms,
and not too long ago
with fathers on the Fourth
watching soldiers
march along Main Street,
and saw them straighten
when the flag unfurled.

We saw them at gates
hugging wives and families,
grandparents
and girls who couldn't let go—
turning then to leave
with head held high,
looking back one last time.

Twenty, they reported,
had fallen, from us now so far.
We weep with you.
For yours are ours.

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Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

1 posted 2005-08-14 03:04 PM

Charles~
Such a beautiful, heartfelt tribute~

*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2005-08-14 03:12 PM

...and not too long ago
with fathers on the Fourth
watching soldiers
march along Main Street,
and saw them straighten
when the flag unfurled. ...

~*~

and now we stand again,
hand on heart,
heads bowed

our prayers with them,
their families,
and grateful
for their service
to one and all.

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2005-08-14 03:13 PM

Charles

I have seen them too....from any city, from too many cities, and I mourn the loss.

Bodger
Senior Member

since 2005-06-12

Posts 1260
Tolerance for a short time

4 posted 2005-08-14 03:24 PM

Can we stop killing anyone of any country and any nationality

Anyone who volunteers for the armed forces accepts being killed

It is a fundamental part of volunteering

You dont blame someone else

No-one forces you to volunteer

It is not a game

Bodger

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

5 posted 2005-08-15 07:06 AM

Well done, Charles

The sympathy flows from every direction of the giver, and the space it crosses is bridged by human prayer...

And I see this poem as a prayer, an acknowledgement, a bridge across
life and death, and although I disagree strongly with the cause of these deaths, I have stifled my argument. A poem such as this tells me to put grievance away, and allow myself to grieve.

Thank You

-------------ice
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LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

6 posted 2005-08-15 10:11 AM

yes, charles, yours "are" ours

this is so sad, so sad...thank you for sharing this...

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

7 posted 2005-08-16 01:19 AM

Nice piece of your heart...James

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

8 posted 2005-08-16 02:09 AM

Charles, this was a thoughtful and well-written tribute....evokes much emotion from this ole Buckeye now transplanted elsewhere. Thank you for penning it.

Ringo

Member Elite

since 2003-02-20

Posts 3684
Saluting with misty eyes

9 posted 2005-08-16 06:59 PM

Semper Fi

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