We Won’t Forget You

This ode is for all our heroes, who gave their lives for the U.S.A.;

To keep our country safe with freedom, the ultimate price they paid!

Weeping widows visit flowered gravesites, crying children by their sides;

Sobbing parents pray for sons and daughters, whose longevity war denied!

These scenes have played over two hundred years, soldiers died, so America could live;

Here, in Europe, Asia, the Mideast, they gave all that they could give!

Some would pay in other ways, a limb or two they lost;

But on crutches or with prosthetic parts, they stand tall at any cost!

Then of course there’s PTSD, the unseen battle scar;

Attacks their minds when they come home, with haunting memories from afar!

Nightmares, cold sweat, hallucinate, they’re back from where they came;

And even now that it’s so different, to them, it’s just the same!

So on this sacred Day of Memorial, we send you all our love;

Our prayers you’ll hear that honor you, in the sky so far above!

We promise you we’ll ne’er forget, what you gave to the United States;

Some day we’ll come to shake your hands, when we meet at Heaven’s Gates!