From A Veterans’ Point Of View

Memorial Day

Together…We followed where it led...

That banner of the red…the white and the blue

Some of us are now alive and some of us are dead

Some of us have troubles in our head

We gave our bodies…our minds…our lives…

For that which the tri-colored banner stands

And our country…where it still flies

Do you remember us…

The ones gone before

Who were lost in ill favored wars?

Do you honor and remember us…

The ones in whom America put her trust

Who grew old before their time

Because they put it all upon the line?

Together…We followed where it led

Now gathered together

On another Memorial Day

Let us bow our heads and pray

Let us remember today... our dead

Who lay beneath

That banner of blue…white and red…

©2008

Faye Sizemore

For Memorial Day 2008