[Woodcarver] HAPP Y4th of JULY (CHAT)

[Jim and Karen Lompe]

Jan,

Thanks for posting the poem, it was very nice.

 

Jim Lompe

SFC, US Army (Retired)

http://jlompe.tripod.com/Main_Page.html

http://www.webshots.com (Listed as OzarkCarver)

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[mailto:woodcarver-bounces at six.pairlist.net] On Behalf Of Jan Oegema
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 6:12 AM
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Subject: [Woodcarver] HAPP Y4th of JULY (CHAT)

 

 

I watched the flag pass by one day,   
 It fluttered in the breeze.  
 A young Marine saluted it,   
 And then he stood at ease..   
 I looked at him in uniform  
  So young, so tall, so proud,  
  With hair cut square and eyes alert  
  He'd stand out in any crowd.  

 I thought how many men like him  
Had fallen through the years.  
  How many died on foreign soil  
  How many mothers' tears?  
  How many pilots' planes shot down?  
  How many died at sea  
  How many foxholes were soldiers' graves? 

 No, freedom isn't free.  

 I heard the sound of Taps one night,  
 When everything was still,  
  I listened to the bugler play  
  And felt a sudden chill. 

 I wondered just how many times  
  That Taps had meant "Amen,"  
  When a flag had draped a coffin.  
  Of a brother or a friend.  

  I thought of all the children,  
  Of the mothers and the wives,  
  Of fathers, sons and husbands  
  With interrupted lives. 

 I thought about a graveyard 
  At the bottom of the sea  
  Of unmarked graves in Arlington.  

  No, freedom isn't free. 

                                                                   Enjoy
Your Freedom &   God Bless Our Troops

                                                                      
  Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Prayer is the very best one.

God bless each one of you, our troops, 
    and    
 Pray God continues to  bless America.


 

                                   Woodbutcher Jan
 

 

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