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steavenr
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since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

0 posted 2011-01-25 09:08 PM

mustered out on December sixth
waiting for a mainland plane
girl at home waiting alone
for the boy becoming a man

sunday morn was quite disturbed
by zeroes flight in homeland's calm
rapiers of the rising sun
bared their swords, emptied sheaths

and hickam dissolved into the scrap yard
of a nation's hopes and dreams
while fliers watched as flying machines
were strewn upon the ground

chaos filled the air, the sea, the land
as manhood strapped his skinny chest
with armor from within and
courage welled like sea-crest waves

for the boy becoming a man

This poem was dedicated to my good friend Harry—survivor, gentleman, soldier (Harry was stationed at Hickam Field, Pearl Harbor.) His tour of duty ended on December 06, 1941, a Saturday. While waiting for a plane to the mainland to begin his new life as a civilian, Pearl Harbor was attacked, and the rest is history…

Harry recently passed away. I wanted to honor his memory once again by re-posting this tribute. He will be missed.

BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

1 posted 2011-01-25 09:11 PM

Aww such a nice tribute, steavenr~
I get the feeling you were both fortunate to call each other, "friend"

JerryPat
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since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

2 posted 2011-01-25 09:31 PM

Nice tribute to your friend.

~ Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. ~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10

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Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2011-01-26 08:48 AM

Thanks for the repost otherwise I would have missed this gem
Lori

steavenr
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since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

4 posted 2011-01-26 12:24 PM

Blues, thank you...Harry was fun to be around...didn't talk much about the war and far more interested in telling you his latest jokes...as I said, fun

Jerry, thank you...as he surely will be missed

Lori, thank you...though I don't do re-posts often, I really wanted to again share his memory (one truly worth re-visiting)

faithmairee
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since 2011-01-05

Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA

5 posted 2011-01-26 07:06 PM

what a wonderful tribute....i'm so glad you reposted it since i never got to see it...it's very beautifully written

Faith

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

6 posted 2011-01-27 12:13 PM

Great tribute and a wonderfully worded poem.
Excellent!

Eric

Forget the Psychiatrists they just find out all about you and sell you back to yourself!

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