((((...Ripples)))): Remembering the Fallen

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Remembering the Fallen

It's Remembrance Sunday last week,

when leaders from around the world

remember the fallen soldiers

who fought for their countries,

for freedom, not necessarily of theirs,

but definitely for their loved ones.

The poem is by John Fischer

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Soldiers by John Fischer

To those who fought and never came back

And those who came back broken

To those who wondered why

And those who never questioned

No one asked them what they thought

Of policies and platforms

They only did what they had to do

And thanks was long in coming

On a day we honor the dead and the living

Who know the real cost of war

And those still trapped inside their heads

Who can't get outside the door

Who can know the awful truth

Of what they must have seen?

And who has lived to tell it

Yet know they never will

Reasons that the journalists

And politicians won

Will never be the same as those

On this side of a gun

So on this day we lay aside

Our arguments and advice

And thank the Lord for those who gave

The ultimate sacrifice

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