Was USAF 61-68, no combat, only surveillance flights, crew member not pilot.
I wish..... My grandfather was a Vet in WW I, deployed to Europe.

My hat is off to all the troops, and returnee's from current conflicts.
Wars are terrible, but these times injuries suffered are so terrible.

I wrote this some years ago, hope no offense is taken, not intended that way.

This was for Memorial Day.... 2006

Time Without End for Our Fallen

Our government does tinker in places it does not Belong,
The lawyers, and politicians mess with it all Along,
A few Vocal people shouted shift our Holidays,
So three day weekends would give us more time to Play.

The yappers are few, but many with hands out, they Are,
They seem to control our destiny's, our future they Mar,
In spite of their efforts, are Nation is still a bright Star,
Let the Yappers and gladhanders snivel from Afar.

This Memorial day for many soldiers who have Fallen,
From Parents, wifes, loved ones, they were Stolen,
But their lives, limbs not lost in Vain, for this Great Nation,
The ultimate price their families and they gave was our Salvation.

For Letting The Fallen ones Sleep silenty in their Graves,
Through hundreds of years of sacrifice they came in Waves,
Bodies broken and maimed as we remember On This Memorial Day,
This is the Land of the Free, And Home of the Solders Brave.

by FrankB 05.29.06

Last edited by seeker; 05/28/12 07:05 AM.