Freedom is Not Free.
I watched the flag pass by one day. It fluttered in the breeze. A young Marine saluted it, And then he stood at ease. I looked at him in uniform; so young, so tall, so proud. With hair cut square and eyes alert, he'd stand out in any crowd. I thought how many men like him had fallen through the years. How many died on foreign soil; how many mothers' tears? How many pilots' planes shot down? How many died at sea? How many foxholes were soldiers' graves? NO, FREEDOM ISN'T FREE ! I heard the sound of Taps one night, when everything was still. I listened to the bugler play And felt a sudden chill. I wondered just how many times That Taps had meant 'Amen.' When a flag had draped a coffin of a brother or a friend. I thought of all the children, of the mothers and the wives, of fathers, sons and husbands With interrupted lives. I thought about a graveyard At the bottom of the sea. Of unmarked graves in Arlington . NO FREEDOM ISN'T FREE Enjoy Your Freedom and God Bless Our Troops. |
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No Freedom is not Free..... Just because someone returns to stateside without a visible wound doesn't necessarily mean that this brave American isn't carrying a far heavier wound inside where no one can see it. God bless America and God bless out Troops ...One and All.. Thank you for y our service and Sacrifice....
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Thank you for that.
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Thank you. Very timely as Australia has lost another fine soldier.
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Thank you for that.
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so many unseeable injuries--freedom is not free
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True so true...crafty_linda_b
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Originally Posted by jemma
so many unseeable injuries--freedom is not free
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Thank you for the poem. So appropriate on this 4th of July. GOD BLESS AMERICA. OUR HOME OF THE FREE THANKS TO THE BRAVE.
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