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Someone's Son
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Someone's Son |
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Redstart Senior Member
since 2014-05-16
Posts 535 |
Just another, shattered son Of all the millions, he was one Who lay there in that, cold French mud Warmed beneath by his life's blood Prostrate, in this field of France His thoughts of home, and village dance Where he'd kissed young girls with faces red But never known a woman's bed What vile butcher sent him here Denied to him his eighteenth year? Who gave to him his hero's fate Now who will scrape the butcher's grate? No more whizz-bangs, no cordite taste Gone the stench of human waste No more freezing, frightened winters Gone the bleak, arboreous splinters Just early memories so very clear The smell of cakes and mother dear Toasting muffins on his knees The magic of Christmas trees The smell of ink on school's first days The clatter of boots on cobbled ways The warmth of England's summer sun All with him now, his time has come |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
I'll allow Edwin Starr to speak for me . . . War, huh, yeah What is it good for Absolutely nothing Uh-huh War, huh, yeah What is it good for Absolutely nothing Say it again, y'all If they give you ruled paper write sideways. |
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Redstart Senior Member
since 2014-05-16
Posts 535 |
With ya buddy, and I'll say it as Barry McGuire: The eastern world, it is explodin' Violence flarin', bullets loadin' Yer old enough to kill, but not fer votin' Ye don't believe in war, but what's that gun yer totin' And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin' And don't tell me we're not on The Eve Of Destruction. |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Of course we're on the eve of destruction. If they give you ruled paper write sideways. |
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Redstart Senior Member
since 2014-05-16
Posts 535 |
Jerry, if they give me ruled paper, I'll tell them to clear off and bring me clean, plain sheets or eff off! (winks) |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
I guess then that even though I wrote sideways I was still part of the establishment. So be it, you win, you have one upped me. Eh . . . |
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Redstart Senior Member
since 2014-05-16
Posts 535 |
Never tried to 'one-up' anyone in my life, Jerry. Just me, and how I see it. |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Hey fellas! Mind if I butt in? Fine Veteran's Day Poem! Thanks for reminding me that there are more than just American Veterans to honor today! Lori  |
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Redstart Senior Member
since 2014-05-16
Posts 535 |
Thank you , Lori, and have no fear: there's a man here who also honours the young Americans who lost their lives to save me and mine from the tyranny of the Nazis and Imperialistic Japan. |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
On the news,forces other than American are often called NATO, or Coalition etc. and one doesn't always stop and think what that really means-that our troops around the world fight with troops from around the world to protect the world. Today we honor and thank them all. Oh, that this day of remembering could become an old tradition, near forgotten, as would be the ancient memory of war. |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
Redstart, a sad but true story and we still have a lot to learn. "When will it ever end" best to you, Jo |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Beautiful tribute, Red. The what ifs and could've would'ves are the wounds of the survivors... and that's always hard road to travel. When will it end? Not soon enough, sadly. Michael |
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Redstart Senior Member
since 2014-05-16
Posts 535 |
Michael, there is always a reason for aggression. Is it possible to turn the other cheek? No, if we are personally invaded, we respond. As do nations to aggression. There is no answer for true peace. Tyranny versus pacifism? Tyranny will always win. As Donovan sang: 'He's the Universal Soldier......' |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
very painful write for those who were in France, thanks for the brillaint hommage yann |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Very intensely expressed and poignant really. I have visited Normandy Cap Blanc-Nez recently and the tragedy of those tremendous days still impresses deeply. You look at those beaches and the German defensive structures and you get goosebumps! What's shocking is that such terrible events do not seem to stop humans to go on with the barbarian aggressions. Thank you for this significant tribute to so many "someone's sons". Margherita |
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