Omaha Beach Normandy Memorial
In the Wee
Hours of June Sixth
There were
Numbers...
Four-hundred thousand...
American...
British...
and
Canadian
There were
Ships...
Five-thousand-
three
hundred
There were
Airplanes...
Eleven
thousand...
plus the
320th Anti-aircraft
Balloon
Battalion
There were
Beaches...
Caen...targeted by the British
Juno...Targeted by the Canadians
Utah and
Omaha...
Targeted
by the Americans
There were
the Times...
June
six...nineteen-forty-four
At the
morning hour of three
...troops
to landing crafts
And before
ten o` clock
There were
the causalities
Over Three
Thousand
lay dead
upon Omaha Beach
But
Victory was imminent
With
Operation Overlord...
Allied
Forces took the beaches
at
Normandy And drove back the foe
from
Germany. Green grass…
and white
crosses
Testament
to the losses...
occurring
when heroes came
from the
air and the sea
Remember
in the wee hours
of the
morning
that
Freedom has never…
and will
never...come free…
©6/6/2007
Faye Sizemore
