=?UNKNOWN?Q?Veteran=92s?= Day Poem, #30

[Brooke Rowe <global-national-security@pacbell.net>]

Veteran’s Day Poem, #30

KOREA

In the words of a 5-star general
as he spole to the USA
Old soldiers never die
they just fade away

But speak not of the Korean vet
As you hear him coming through
in remmbreance of his comrades
with his tears of gratitude

In the years of 1950
the communist had a plan
to captureSouth Korea
as the free world made a stand

Yes, John Q, there was Korea
but not like the wars before
for this action came
with a policeman's name
when the bear had knocked on the door

Many countries remember their fallen
in respect of honor due
but in these states
such little relates
and our histories words are few.

For in the hallway of the the high school
mahogany placques stand out
of the names engraved
and the sacrifice made
to remind us what war is about.

There are names there
of the first war
and very first bugle call
and for the taps that blew
in World War Two
and the boys from Nam on the Wall.

But the Korean War forgotten
54,000 lost their place
and the 8,000 more. Our MIA's
of them there's such little trace.

So hea us, 5-star Generals
we heed to the words you say
that old soldiers never die
by why must they fade away?

      Written from the heart by Frank Gross

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