Many of you are Veterans...many have parents, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters that have or are serving.
Sporadically I make a whimsical attempt to marry feeling with word in a poets prose. I could never express the true nature or magnitude of thanks I have for America?s veterans, but for now, for this moment?these few words will have to do.
REFLECTIONS ON THE AMERICAN SOLIDER?
You have battled hard at Bunker Hill,
Iwo Jima?s beaches and Chanchellorsville.
Meuse-Argonne was our darkest day,
America?s spirit almost lost its way.
Manassas, Midway, and Phuoc Long,
Ticonderoga, Yorktown, and Pusan.
Antietam, Baghdad, and Philippine Sea,
Okinawa, Manila, and Oriskany.
Kunar Province, Johnstown, and Shiloh,
Mogadishu, Berlin and Kosovo.
Grenada, Cowpens, and Colson?s Mill,
Coral Sea, Anzio, and Hamburger Hill.
Belleau Wood, Peleliu, and Saipan,
To the deepest jungles of Vietnam.
Saigon, Go Cong, and Hill 723,
To the blood soaked beach at Normandy.
Brandywine, Shiloh, and Kandahar,
The jagged peak of Taku Gar.
Guadalcanal, Berlin, and Flanders Fields,
With a fighting spirit that never yields.
Antietam, Salerno, and Belleau Wood,
Back here at home we all understood.
Your casket draped with the stars and stripes,
Brought you home after your last fight.
Your sacrifice is always treasured,
Commitment, strength, and faith unmeasured.
Rest in peace tonight my warrior friends,
Gods plan for us is to meet again???.
Lt Col Kurt Klewin, USAF
12 Nov 2012
I also leave you with a quote I?ve always liked: ?It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.? Gen. George S. Patton
Sporadically I make a whimsical attempt to marry feeling with word in a poets prose. I could never express the true nature or magnitude of thanks I have for America?s veterans, but for now, for this moment?these few words will have to do.
REFLECTIONS ON THE AMERICAN SOLIDER?
You have battled hard at Bunker Hill,
Iwo Jima?s beaches and Chanchellorsville.
Meuse-Argonne was our darkest day,
America?s spirit almost lost its way.
Manassas, Midway, and Phuoc Long,
Ticonderoga, Yorktown, and Pusan.
Antietam, Baghdad, and Philippine Sea,
Okinawa, Manila, and Oriskany.
Kunar Province, Johnstown, and Shiloh,
Mogadishu, Berlin and Kosovo.
Grenada, Cowpens, and Colson?s Mill,
Coral Sea, Anzio, and Hamburger Hill.
Belleau Wood, Peleliu, and Saipan,
To the deepest jungles of Vietnam.
Saigon, Go Cong, and Hill 723,
To the blood soaked beach at Normandy.
Brandywine, Shiloh, and Kandahar,
The jagged peak of Taku Gar.
Guadalcanal, Berlin, and Flanders Fields,
With a fighting spirit that never yields.
Antietam, Salerno, and Belleau Wood,
Back here at home we all understood.
Your casket draped with the stars and stripes,
Brought you home after your last fight.
Your sacrifice is always treasured,
Commitment, strength, and faith unmeasured.
Rest in peace tonight my warrior friends,
Gods plan for us is to meet again???.
Lt Col Kurt Klewin, USAF
12 Nov 2012
I also leave you with a quote I?ve always liked: ?It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.? Gen. George S. Patton