November 11, 2008
VETERAN'S DAY
We are soldiers.
We are soldiers in the United States Army.
We are trained to be all we can be.
We fight for the freedom of many citizens of the United States.
We are all ready to meet our fates.
We all volunteer to defend the red, white and blue.
Not only the flag, but for the citizens of our great country too.
Since our country's birth for all these years,
we have been trained to be the best on Earth.
Many times we have went to war.
We will be involved in many more.
Generation by generation soldiers continue to enlist.
Some of us will got to war and definitely be missed.
Some soldiers will return and some won't.
Those who do not, we won't forget and we hope you don't.
Many of us are going to Iraq.
Some of us won't be coming back.
We have loved ones we are leaving behind.
They will always be in our prayers, hearts and mind.
If we don't make it home safely at the end of the war,
just remember we died defending the beliefs of those of many more.
---PFC Gunnar Becker, 22 Jan 1985--15 Jan 2005
Posted by Sarah at November 11, 2008 09:34 AM | TrackBack:`(
This made me cry.
Happy Veteran's day to your hubby. And to you too... especially for all that you do in loving and supporting him.
Posted by: T at November 11, 2008 11:25 AMI can't believe it's been almost four years.
I have not forgotten Gunnar or Debey.
Such moving words. Did Debey send her son's poem to you?
Posted by: Amritas at November 11, 2008 01:39 PMShe posted the poem a while back. I put it up on Memorial Day last year or the year before.
Posted by: Sarah at November 11, 2008 02:33 PMThank you.................
Posted by: Debey at November 11, 2008 06:37 PM