Memorial Day 2011 - Freedom Isn't Free
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MEMORIAL DAY 2011
“Freedom Isn’t Free”
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I watched the flag pass by one day, It fluttered in the breeze.
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A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.
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I looked at him in uniform,So young, So tall, So proud,
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With hair cut square and eyes alert,
He'd stand out in any crowd.
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I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
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How many mothers' tears?
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How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea.
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How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
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No, freedom isn't free.
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I heard the sound of Taps
one night, When
everything was still,
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Listened to the bugler play,
And felt a sudden chill.
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Wondered just how many times,
That Taps had meant Amen.
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When a flag had draped a coffin.
Of a brother or a friend.
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I thought of all the
children, Of mothers
and the wives,
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Of fathers, sons and husbands,
With interrupted lives.
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I thought about a
graveyard at the
bottom of the sea.
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Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
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NO, FREEDOM ISN'T FREE.