Veterans Day / Memorial Day Poem #236
Lest We Forget
Will someone tell the story? Can anyone recall...
The horrors of the First World War, and the thousands that would fall?
The doughboys in the trenches, that were bombed and shelled and gassed...
Does anyone still live today, who can relate what really passed?
And what about the millions, who served the second time around?
Their numbers lessen every day, soon, even they, will not be found.
Nearly half a million paid the price, to save the world and make it free.
My friends... do you remember them, and their sacrifice, for you and me?
Do you remember Korea, the Forgotten War? the first of many battles born
and
bred,
Because of politics and ideologies... that left so many sons and fathers
dead.
Have we forgotten those who burned our Flag and cursed the deeds of men
who
stood so tall;
Who bravely served and died in South Vietnam; their names now etched on a
cold
grey wall?
Does our memory still harbor thoughts, of conflicts different from the
norm?
Somalia, Grenada and Kosovo, Panama, Bosnia and Desert Storm.
And today, there are thousands still deployed, in barren mountain and
desert
sand.
Who serve and die, as we endeavor to bring Freedom to many a troubled
land.
Of the legions called upon to serve, and were sent to fight on foreign
shore...
How many thousands still remain, their fate unknown forevermore?
Let us devote today, Memorial Day, to those who heeded Freedom s call.
Let us retell the tales... Lest We Forget, that all gave some, and some
gave
all.
Written from the heart by Frank J. Montoya
aboutme: Retired CW3, US Army, 9th Infantry Division, Vietn
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