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DAY OF INFAMY
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DAY OF INFAMY |
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Abe Senior Member
since 2003-05-28
Posts 694Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end! 
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MORE IS NOT BETTER We have been at the War this time Longer than that one in Forty-one With maybe not as many casualties But too many, more than one. The right thing when we started And sent Troops to Afghanistan But then, we got our mess in Iraq And have ended up an, also ran. We should have gone on to Baghdad When the World was by our side When we were still respected And our Nation was filled with Pride. After the attacks on Pearl Harbor Our People knew where we should be There was no doubt, protecting Freedom Was our Country’s utmost priority. We had an Honorable goal And the Truth (?) was known by all Although we didn’t want to go to War The Japanese at Pearl, made that call. Sometimes there is no other choice And no matter how hard we may try We have had to send our young away To fight battles, to get hurt, to die. But, there’s times the Politicians And the corporate powers that be In their quest for wealth and power Will gamble with our Great Country. When they have spent all our resources And put us all in hopeless debt With no more to pillage from us They'll try to get more from us, yet. But this time they have gone too far And the World will never be the same In the end there’ll be no one to win And no ending, to this deadly game. Another, “Day of Infamy!” ? Well, there surely isn’t any doubt But, when we chose to invade Iraq We forgot what that day, was about. But, things being what they are There's one constant to it all We will always have those Heroes Who'll answer our Country's call. 11.30.06 years past A DAY OF INFAMY Around eight o’clock in the morn In Nineteen forty-one On December the Seventh Our World War Two was begun. We’d tried to stay out of it And said, it was not our fight But an attack by Jap aircraft Made us look and see the light. One hundred of our ships Were docked at the Seaport And planes parked all around With Troops for their support. The saddest part of the attack Was, it was known an hour before A Jap midget sub spotted and sunk And that may have changed the War. The crew of the USS Ward Who had sent it down below Radioed Pearl Naval Command Who didn’t believe their story, so. That one hour of warning The Navy Brass failed to heed May have saved so many lives Maybe lost without need. Some sixty-one years later The truth was finally known The sub found with the holes Shells from the Ward had blown. Some have said our Government Knew of the attack beforehand Some accounts hard to believe And even harder to understand. Almost twelve hundred wounded Nearly twenty-four hundred died Our Country shocked and outraged While all of our People cried. Twenty-one ships sunk or damaged Plus more than three hundred planes Wrecks strewn along the bottom Which, still hold some remains. Many years have come and passed Since that day of infamy With so many more battles waged To help keep our Country Free. So sad it takes War for Peace But guess that’s the Human way But seems there’s more time fighting Than we spend with a peaceful day. December 7th, 2005 SEVEN COME ELEVEN (after 9/11) On this day we remember That “day of infamy” And sadly we understand More than we want to see. A “sneak attack” on Freedom And the American way Brought back to reality On Septembers’ eleventh day. Thousands died in forty-one With so many not retrieved Resting in their watery grave O’er which friends and family grieved. Now we have another place Known to all, as “Ground Zero” Where we have another bunch Of, the American Hero. Sixty years of times’ passage Hasn’t changed the “Patriot” Hasn’t dampened our resolve To remember, not, forget. Those who gave their, “all” And those, still yet, to “give” Standing for, protecting The kind of life, we live. The casualties of war Don’t always bear a gun But, they all are Heroes When all is said and done. Now, we have another one Of those “infamous” days With the horrible cost That Freedom, often, pays. December 7th, 2001 Del "Abe" Jones Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity. [This message has been edited by Abe (12-01-2006 09:24 AM).] |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Abe~ You have a patriotic passion for what you believe in ... and that's to be applauded~ 'Sometimes there is no other choice And no matter how hard we may try We have had to send our young away To fight battles, to get hurt, to die.' Unfortunately ... your statement above is correct ... and unfortunately ... there was no other choice, in my opinion, to take on the responsibilities that the war in Iraq has required us to take on~ May all the world one day know peace ... I doubt that will happen in our time ... but it is an applaudable goal to continue working toward~ *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~ |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Nice writing...I'm reading "The Coldest War" right now...about the Korean War...one of my Mom's brother died while serving in the Korean War...interesting reading...James |
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