| Veterans Day |  |
| Without regret, without remorse
they went off to fight in wars, for many;
they're sentimental soldiers of concocted wars.
Not for fame and not for glory, but for humanity
enlisted, a duty long abused of political minds,
by those who send them off to fight and die.
Some will never return, some wounded
body and soul; some lie deadly silent.
They know of much self-sacrifice
and who will lose a limb, a life.
Among siblings, their buddies,
their love never dies or fails.
Generation after generation
you see them, honor them,
remember them forever.
They served the World
with dignity and valor
braver than the fools
who sent them away
to fight bloody war.
They won peace;
they rule today,
freedom rings
Veterans Day. | By Thomas McGowan
Copyright 2006
Listed November 23, 2006
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