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Abe
Senior Member

since 2003-05-28

Posts 694
Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end!

0 posted 2003-10-24 02:41 PM

ONLY NUMBERS?

Two hundred, twenty-eight years
That, we have been going to war
Eleven times we said, "For freedom!"
Was, what we were fighting for.
We’ve spent two, point, six trillion
But that was just a petty cost
Compared to all of the spent lives
Of those loved ones, who were lost.
Thirty-two hundred plus, a month
For more than thirty-two years
The total time fighting our enemies
And more time, shedding our tears.
One and one quarter million dead
That’s more than fifteen every day
Since we went to war, "For freedom!"
In our Revolutionary way.
One and one half million wounded
For this Country of the Free
Although some of these losses
Were the Union’s and Confederacy.
But, all of them are Veterans
Who fought for what they believed
In their own way, doing battle
For those Freedoms, they perceived.
As of late, a Veteran’s definition
Has come from a different kind of War
For which we all, are conscripted
To help guard, our Freedom’s door.
Let’s Honor, each and every one
And though we may not know each name
They were so much more than numbers
In every Wartime’s deadly "game".
And, this November eleventh
In the year, Two Thousand Three
Let’s hope someday, all People
Live in a land, where they are Free.
Let’s make Veteran’s Day a memory
And a part of days gone past
Learn to live with our Fellowman
In a Free World at Peace, at last.

10-24-2003

Del "Abe" Jones

Sunnyone
Member Ascendant

since 2000-07-06

Posts 5334
Staffordshire, England

1 posted 2003-10-24 04:54 PM

Splendidly written and the sentiments here are so worthy of many reads!! I, too, would like to see Veteran's Day a thing of the past...or at least, a thing not necessary in the future! Much enjoyed your work here...~S~

Accept these small gifts from my gypsy heart ~S~

Sadelite
Member Elite

since 2003-10-11

Posts 2519

2 posted 2003-10-24 05:02 PM

I don't know what to say.  The numbers are astonishing.
                        Sincerely,
                        Sadelite

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

3 posted 2003-10-24 05:16 PM

Abe
Not the gettyburg adress but well done, enjoyed.

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