THOUGHTS ON THIS MEMORIAL DAY

It is not about holiday picnics
or flags
or auto racing
or swimming
and family fun.

...... or a BBQ at the setting of the sun.

It is about remembering young men who fell
dying and in agony
into the arms of a loving country, while serving
so far away

from...... home!

Gone
forever.

Wives and children
gone forever.

Holidays
... gone forever.

Friends
and old age
... gone forever.

It is a solemn day
for each of us who survived.

It is a day of silence
and a hand salute.

A day of deep remembrance.

©Copyright May 13, 2003 by Lou J. Klaiber