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Array ( [sid] => 27813 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => 1941 [time] => 2003-11-24 09:46:55 [hometext] => My first attempt at a historical poem. Flames are welcome, but don't be too harsh. [bodytext] => 1941

was a terrifying year
if you were living in North America,
specifically the United States,
with war happening all around and fear spreading like wildfire, the
threat of Naziism had swept through the world like a plague of death
and decay, and nobody was safe from the wrath of Hitler and his forces,
his panzers, the Luftwaffe, his hordes of infantry, the precision,
the precision of his tactics causing ripples and rumours from one side of the world
to the other, and no one, not Canada,
nor any of her allies, seemed safe --

Then,
German forces began to spread, moving outwards in all directions, their
only thought being of following orders, of controlling as much land as was humanly possible, and the complete and utter annihilation
of all 'inferiour races',
they were succeeding in their ruler's wishes,
and Jews all over Europe
were being tortured and murdered, even Jews
who were German weren't safe
from the concentration camps being run
for Hitler by his followers, and
Hitler laughed in glee with the death of these
millions of people,
for he wanted only Germans to survive this
Second World War,
and it appeared that he would be right --

In December, a time when people should be looking forward to Christmas,
Pearl Harbor was bombed in a surprise attack by the Japanese, and
the world seemed to turn upside down,
and the only country in the world
that everyone thought was invincible
took a staggering blow,
and they never saw it coming, those Americans,
they didn't know that they weren't
invincible, and the paid the price for it,
and only then did America join her brethren on the battlefields,
and her forces joined Canadians, the English
and the French
in the war against Hitler,
and new hope surged in the peoples of the west,
for they now had a fighting chance,
and the Nazis would be defeated,
or so the propaganda read, but it was right,
hope survived,
and Hitler's reign over the eastern half
of the world appeared to be waning -- [comments] => 1 [counter] => 892 [topic] => 57 [informant] => MrWrite [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => war )

1941

Contributed by MrWrite on Monday, 24th November 2003 @ 09:46:55 AM in AEST
Topic: war

1941

was a terrifying year
if you were living in North America,
specifically the United States,
with war happening all around and fear spreading like wildfire, the
threat of Naziism had swept through the world like a plague of death
and decay, and nobody was safe from the wrath of Hitler and his forces,
his panzers, the Luftwaffe, his hordes of infantry, the precision,
the precision of his tactics causing ripples and rumours from one side of the world
to the other, and no one, not Canada,
nor any of her allies, seemed safe --

Then,
German forces began to spread, moving outwards in all directions, their
only thought being of following orders, of controlling as much land as was humanly possible, and the complete and utter annihilation
of all 'inferiour races',
they were succeeding in their ruler's wishes,
and Jews all over Europe
were being tortured and murdered, even Jews
who were German weren't safe
from the concentration camps being run
for Hitler by his followers, and
Hitler laughed in glee with the death of these
millions of people,
for he wanted only Germans to survive this
Second World War,
and it appeared that he would be right --

In December, a time when people should be looking forward to Christmas,
Pearl Harbor was bombed in a surprise attack by the Japanese, and
the world seemed to turn upside down,
and the only country in the world
that everyone thought was invincible
took a staggering blow,
and they never saw it coming, those Americans,
they didn't know that they weren't
invincible, and the paid the price for it,
and only then did America join her brethren on the battlefields,
and her forces joined Canadians, the English
and the French
in the war against Hitler,
and new hope surged in the peoples of the west,
for they now had a fighting chance,
and the Nazis would be defeated,
or so the propaganda read, but it was right,
hope survived,
and Hitler's reign over the eastern half
of the world appeared to be waning --

Copyright © MrWrite ... [ 2003-11-24 09:46:55]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: 1941 (User Rating: 1 )
by doug on Monday, 24th November 2003 @ 03:21:48 PM AEST
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A pleasure to read, no flames here. keep it up
, your friend , doug

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