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[title] => On this Memorial Day
[time] => 2008-06-05 17:55:02
[hometext] => "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here… Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863
[bodytext] => ~~*~~ On this Memorial Day As I read, through each column of names A tear wells in my eye And I looked about from where I sat Then deep, up to the sky Their names went on from page to page And still, there were some more I could not help, but think to myself What has this all been for? Sometimes we just don’t give much thought To what it all has cost The freedoms that we’ve come to enjoy For the brave young lives we’ve lost I then walked around, to the front of our home To the flag, that my wife hung there Its stars and stripes flew proudly Yet, it barely fluttered in this morning’s air My mood had now grown somber As the sun went to the clouds And it slipped at a very slow cadence As if it too, had known somehow Now I just had to go back again To finish reading each name It listed all their ages And from where, they all had came I may not have known, a single one And their names may fade away But they’re all remembered here in print On this Memorial Day ~~*~~ 2008-06-02 [comments] => 3 [counter] => 267 [topic] => 18 [informant] => ZiggyB [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Holiday Poetry )
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