Veterans Day Poem #96

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

Veterans Day Poem #96

 KWVA

Warriors from a forgotten war,
Fifty years we've passed in pain.
We lived and relive the battles fought,
Our dreams, a hell-bound train

For into that frozen hell we went,
Young men, offering up our youth.
And we emerged, who did emerge,
Innocence sacrificed to truth.

You were there and I was there
To fight that hellish foe,
Whose hell-fire yet burns within us,
An enemy not letting go.

We gather now, who've not forgot
As some have done, it seems,
And give voice to the nightmare,
More reality than dreams.

Keeping ever this comradeship
We speak of Then and There,
Victories are recalled, and loss
And in this kinship, we share.

Written from the heart for the Sgt. Harold F. Adkison Chapter of the
KWVA, Burnettown, SC. by Judith Knight

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