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Post by lordhebdar on Dec 14, 2005 23:21:28 GMT -4
I did not wright this but found it, and i think you all should read it: "Those Honored Dead"
"Why do you fly the flag today?" My Grandson wants to know. I fly it for the graveyards Where the countless crosses grow.
I fly the flag for children Whose fathers are a name. A half-remembered memory of a face within a frame.
I fly it for the families of sons and daughters lost. They know the price of liberty How terrible the cost!
I fly the flag for veterans who lost their youth in blood. And saw their comrades slaughtered in the carnage and the mud.
I fly it for the ones who marched In cadence off to war To close their eyes forever Upon some foreign shore.
I fly the flag for grief poured out Upon a granite wall. The laying-on of hands that heals The scars within us all.
I fly it for the sound of Taps--- That melancholy tune That lays to rest those honored dead Who always die too soon.
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Post by Nymiane on Dec 14, 2005 23:33:35 GMT -4
Wow, touching.
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