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POW/MIA Remembrance Day
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POW/MIA Remembrance Day |
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Abe Senior Member
since 2003-05-28
Posts 694Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end! 
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Friday was POW/MIA Remembrance Day but anytime is the right time to remember them. Abe POW/MIA So manyfates are left unknown And so many rumors that abound So many families ask the question "When will, the answers be found?" So many years have come and gone Sometimes, hope is hard to keep There’s some who feel there’s none And in some, it’s buried deep. The pain, is in not knowing How, to put loved ones’ to rest When there is no way to prove They have passed, the final test. But, no matter what the answers We can’t let this cause alone Until, each and every one of them Is found, and brought back home POW/MIA STORIES It's hard to find, the stories That, they won't talk about It's hard, to realize the things That they had, to go, without. How can they let the feelings (Even, they don't understand) Show to, any other people In this, Freedom's Land. We can’t know, the hardships Unless, we were there Especially, when they came back home To those who didn't, seem, to care. Unless you had, lived through it Watching, Comrades that had died Why should they, talk about it to us Of, the tears, inside, they've cried? Even, if they chose to tell us What difference, would it make Would it be worth the chance That they, would have to take. Why should they bare their soul That's already been, stripped, clean Because, even with, a picture of it We couldn't see, what they have seen. Sometimes, all we have to do Is, to look into their eyes And think that we might see or hear Their, mournful, pain-filled cries. That POW who came home Who lived, through that Hell Can't tell the stories, of the MIA Whonever had, a chance to tell! So, we may never, ever, know Of, the horrors, they have, known And, if we think about it It's probably best, that they aren't shown! But there is, always an end To every, never-ending story Althoughsometimes, they’re never told In, all their Truth and Glory. So if you ask about it And if you ever wonder why They won’t talk of that nightmare Maybe now, you might know, Why? POW/MIA For as long as we have Wars And we send our Young to fight We’ll have Those who are Missing And the POWs plight. All People of this Nation Have this Duty to fulfill. We must keep Them in our thoughts And, We must have the Will To bring every One home And do all we can to find All those POW/MIAs And leave NO Souls behind. POW/MIA ISSUE Ten years of "BITS 'N' PIECES" By some People who still care In a search for clues and answers About Those We left "over there". Trying to get the military And all those politicians To take actions to find Them With calls, letters and petitions. It's a sad State of Affairs When the families and friends Must lead the Battle in the Search In this War that never ends. All those loved ones still Missing Who went to War for me and you Deserve much more from our Country Than just the efforts of those few. "The National Alliance of Families" Carries that Banner for us all To bring home those Forgotten Who answered our Nation's Call. Please visit their pages And give them a helping hand For if "One Missing" was "One" close to you Maybe then, you'd understand. ©Copyright 05 September 2004 by Del "Abe" Jones "The National Alliance of Families" http://www.nationalalliance.org/home1.htm |
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ThisDiamond Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353Michigan, USA |
Thank you for sharing your writings, and the web link about POW/MIA's. What a desolate feeling engulfed me, thinking how these brave people endured such unthinkable hardship. An almost unbearable thought, except that it is most certainly reality. |
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