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Love, Johnny |
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Her hands shook as she moved them
Across a faded picture
Signed and Dated on the back
To you Mama
Love Johnny, 1941
The year spoke memories
A war that was fought
To protect our land
Our Freedom
Our rights
Johnny was smiling
How young, how bright
His buddies stand round him
Laughing
The war they fought
And the ones that
Never came back home
She said that he promised
He'd return to her some day
But the flag draped coffin
Said otherwise
She can't remember much
But when she does it's him
Back before the war
And all those years waiting
And needing his embrace again
'He's not gone"
She says holding a picture
'I am waiting for the war to end
To hold him in my arms once more"
No one has the heart to tell her
That he passed for His country
Back in 1941
But the Flag's still folded on her table
Though a little faded
Yellow and old
He still fought for her
Knowing that he would one way or another |
Andrea VanDerslice
12th Grade
Copyright
2007
Listed
November 29, 2007 |
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