Alan L. Winters: Frozen Glory

FROZEN GLORY

We have fought the heat and enemy
In Saudi sand and Vietnam.
And in a frozen Hell
We’ve dodged the shot and shell
In Afghanistan and Chosan
And Valley Forge as well.
In foreign lands and in our own
Our dead are etched in stone.
Yet they who fell were never gone
But frozen in their glory
For all eternity.

IWVPA Double Tap Award for War Poetry: December 15, 2007
Awarded: December 15, 2007