Memorial

Draped in red white and blue

  

Salute!!!

I salute all those whose life was lost 

On this shore Continental called

States Of  America

After or before battle 

Revolution was not airy 
Musket balls, Caissons carried 
Marching troops over hills, through prairies
The sounds of blackened feet
Drums beat
No retreat

We were there weren't we Crispus?

If you could speak today

Page by page, lines one by one

History Books could tell

The farmers son, the widows

The wife, no more berries

 Left to bare the weight of the juice

Your choice I reckon would be

The Truth

We were everywhere 

Standing tall until the fall

Sliding on their belly 

On some hill

Sandy beach numbers 354

Blood shed, Massachusetts red

                                                                                                                                          

They say Dorie did not play

Oh no, no way, not that ill fitted day 

On that harbour, Pearls no where in sight

Just fight, 

Trained at home in Texas

Shooting squirrel and rabbits at night

It wasn't a row your boat kind of day 

Dedicated USS out West Virginia way

Not to be mistaken for weak ass men

Just ask

South Carolina, Tennessee Regiments

Companies A & B fighting

US Colored Troops 

Mustered in not out

Hankering to be free from tyranny

Thousands died

W.W.1 and W.W.11, Vietnam and Storm

Oh hell yes there was faithful Semper Fi

Buffalo Soldiers First Division Cav.

Bring us home was the cry

Tuskegee Reds

Ride on and Fly
Through the Airplanes of life
Adversities all the while
Marked we shall overcome 

Sketched and Etched 

Who answered the call

The Soldiers did
Solidly imprinted and fixed
Caught in the Vietnam Jungle 
In Nineteen Hundred Sixty Six
A California neighbor to all of of us
Brother Bruce's friends Jerry Thomas 

Henry Kuykendahl too

Rest in Peace  

Poem by me VDM......