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Officially called Decoration Day
proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan
first observed on 30 May 1868
Waterloo N.Y. officially declared the birthplace
by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966.

though two score and ten plus years since 
Appomattox, a psychological balm
helped stitch frayed nation to calm
served as silent psalm 
since bombardment at Fort Sumter qualm.

National holiday most adept
at uniting Civil War fallen soldiers 
when fiercely armed as brother in arms crept
against opposing forces, which took 
by surprise “enemies” or found inept

ill prepared troops with surprise mortal 
blow which ambushed attackers leapt
mowing down valiant soldiers, thus 
becoming slain grooms who eternally slept 
sorrowful lamentable hymns from 
widowed brides tears wept.

Cease fire that day
terminating internecine flay
o’er mounds of earth whence 
bones o boys donned blue or gray
a day of remembrance for those 
who died in our nation's service lay

celebrated this last Monday every May
one must know tis not about division nay
boot about reconciliation 
and sacrifice brave heroes did pay,
the price of their lives for granted 
freedoms enjoyed as american lee-way.

Forsooth, now we cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.

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