All we have for freedom,
All we use or know,
This our Fathers bought for us,
Long, long ago.
~Rudyard Kipling
All we use or know,
This our Fathers bought for us,
Long, long ago.
~Rudyard Kipling
While this may be a time for beach blasts, barbeque cookouts with hot dogs, hamburgers and apple pie, it is more importantly a time of remembering. . .
The Fallen Soldiers
Like the bald eagle
Forever Watchful were we
Guiding and protecting
The land of the free
'Twas our place
To be brave and strong
Ready and willing
All the day long
Our eyes were keen
Often focused on pain
The fields were bloody
Amid storms and rain
Bodies of comrades
Strewn there and about
Never for a moment
Left room for any doubt
On home or foreign shores
Know ardently that we
Who gave up our lives
'Twas for country and thee
©Awakenings 2012
Sharla Lee Shults
