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One Day in June country as flag
Largest armada ever seen;
Normandy's beaches strewn
with the dead and dying
... one day in June.

The year was forty-four
and there was little room
on the bloody beaches
... one day in June.

Axis powers began a war
and now had sealed their doom
when ships and planes met
... one day in June.

Thousands came ashore
to end the conflict soon
freely meeting death there
one day in June.

Many transport ships
disgorged from their womb
fighting men to do battle
... one day in June.

The sights and sounds
of ships' guns that boom
wrecked havoc on shore
... that day in June.

France soon set free
and on to Germany
with smell of cordite fume
... in all the days of June.

The Battle of the Bulge
almost spelled the doom
of Patton's men
... in those dark days of June!

But victory was meant to be
for all the allied Free
so poppies now bloom
... over those who died in June.
By C. Douglas Caffey
Copyright 2004
Listed March 19, 2009

Author's Bio:
C. Douglas Caffey is a disabled veteran of WWII. He served (1944-1946) in the 509th Composite Bomb Group, 58th Wing, Air Photo Unit, 20th Air Force, United States Army Air Force. It was the 509th who dropped the atomic bombs on Japan and did the atom bomb tests at Bikini in the Pacific. A chronic sufferer of PTSD since WWII, Doug is a former college dean. He started writing poetry several years ago and though he doesn't claim to be a poet, he does claim to write from the heart.
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