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A Tribute To Veterans

In Vietnam, Korea and World Wars Past
Our Men Fought Bravely so Freedom Would Last
Conditions Were Not Always Best They Could Be
Fighting a Foe You Could Not Always See:
From Mountain Highs to Valley Lows
From Jungle Drops to Desert Patrols
Our Sinewy Sons Were Sent Over Seas
Far From Their Families And Far From Their Dreams
They Never Wrote Letters Of Hardships Despair
Only Of Love, Yearning That One Day Soon:
They Would Come Home, They Would Resume
And Carry On With The Rest of Their Lives
The P.O.W.¹S Stood Steadfast
Against the Indignities And Cruelties Of War
They Could Not Have Lasted as Long as They Did
If They Had Relinquished Their Hope That Some Day:
They Would Come Home, They Would Resume

And Carry On the Rest Of Their Lives

Medics, Nurses, and Chaplains Alike

Did What They Needed To Bring Back Life

They Served Our Forces From Day Into Night

Not Questioning If They Would Survive:

They Mended Bones And Bodies Too,

They Soothed the Spirits of Dying Souls

And for Those M.I.A¹S, Who Were Left Behind

We Echo This Message Across the Seas

We Will search For as Long As It Takes

You¹re Not Forgotten And Will Always Be:

In Our Hearts, In Our Prayers,

In Our Minds For All Time

A Moment of Silence, a Moment of Summons

Is Their Deliverance of Body And Soul

To a Sacred Place That We All Know

Deep In the Shrines of Our Soul:

In Our Hearts, In Our Prayers

In Our Minds For All Time

INTERLUDE:

GOLD STAR MOTHERS GRIEVE: ENDLESSLY,

ENDLESSLY, ENDLESSLY.......

These Immortalized Soldiers Whose Bravery Abounds

They¹re Our Husbands, Fathers, and Sons

They Enlisted For the Duty at Hand

To Serve the Cause of Country and Land:

They Had Honor, They Had Valor,

They Found Glory That Change Them Forever

Men Standing Tall and Proud They be

A Country Behind Them in a Solemn Sea

So Let the Flags of Freedom Fly

Unfurled in Their Majesty High:

In the Sun, In the Rain

In the Winds Across This Land

Years of Tears Has Brought Us Here

Gathering Around to Hear This Sound

So Let the Flags of Freedom Fly

Unfurled in Their Majesty High:

In the Sun, In the Rain,

In the Winds Across This Land

REPEAT:

In the Sun, In the Rain,

In the Winds For All Time

 © 2003 Jerry Calow

We Stood For Freedom

 We stood for freedom just like you

And loved the flag you cherish too

 Our uniforms felt great to wear

You know the feel, and how you care

 In step we marched, the cadence way

The same is true with you today

 Oh how we tried to do our best

As you do now, from test to test

 How young we were and proud to be

Defenders of true liberty

 So many thoughts bind soldiers well

The facts may change, not how we jell

 Each soldier past, and you now here

Do share what will not disappear

 One thought now comes, straight from my heart

For soldiers home, who’ve done their part

 I’m honored to have served with you

May Godly peace, help get you through

 And now I’ll end with a request

Do ponder this, while home at rest

 America, respect our day

Each veteran, helped freedom stay 

©2002 Roger J. Robicheau

 

I Stand Before You 

I stand before you all today
But not one eye can see my way 
My time arrived, to leave this earth
A fact so planned, to every birth 
It happened where I had to go
My torch for life was so aglow 
I transferred while in uniform
Protecting freedom, through a storm 
Should I resent I died for you
Not on my life, red white and blue 
Please help my family through each day
Tell all my friends, try not to stray 
And of the country I did love
Do think of me, through God above 
Your memories, brought forth this day
Send love to us, who could not stay 
©2001 Roger J. Robicheau

 

 

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