D-DAY 6th of JUNE
The Greatest Generation is slipping away
A thousand of them die each and every day
Only a few heroes made it out to Normandy
To honor brave ones that we’ll no longer see
Sixty Five Years ago on that cold June day
Waves of those heroes came there they say
To right a Great Wrong and bring Liberty
To the oppressed people needing to be free
They laid their lives on the line with courage
And now the heroes are falling from old age
One came here to the white markers last night
But did not wake for the dawn’s early light
Can your eyes not tear up, but remain dry
When the Missing Man Formation flies by?
Does your heart not ache when Taps is blown
In memory of those whose spirits have flown?
It is a day of Honor, yet it is so still and sad
Acknowledging those times that were so bad
When all of the whole world had lost its peace
And the fighting and the killing would not cease
Remembering all those who answered the call
Who knew when they came, here they might fall
They’re the honored veterans who are truly brave
They put up their lives with the entire world to save
And now they are very old men, so wrinkled and gray
Like General Douglas MacArthur said, “Fading away”
But they will live in our hearts, each and every one
For the gifts they have given us, for what they’ve done.
© Spider ‘09
