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Memorial Day – 2024... origin of holiday

Strong and brave men and women 
gave their level best
crème de la crème 
strongest and bravest
leaving grieving significant others 
with emotional agony 
within treasured chest
o'er the redoubt  
the enemy did crest,
where lovely bones 
of forebears for everest

battling hostility over 
well fought over ass strew turf 
among warring factions finessed
in manicured cemeteries 
(sacred burial grounds) ye guessed
dead bodies strewn across killing fields 
forsook their lives eternal peace they rest
honored and revered succumbed mortal 
electric kool-aid acid test
though I question if sacrificed life 
worth a spit of land to wrest.

Now pardon ma faux pas 
indicative of generic geek
a reasonable rhyme rhyme,
from dis po' pa try'n to be sleek
original poem crafted years gone by 
necessitated minor tweak
where sense and sensibility weak.

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 eight score minus one year  
(minor emendation regarding time frame
since original date I crafted poem)
Appomattox, a psychological balm
helped stitch frayed nation to calm
until hell on earth 
killed, obliterated, and rained napalm,
(a portmanteau of two 
of the constituents 
of the original thickening 
and gelling agents: 
coprecipitated aluminium salts 
of naphthenic acid 
and palmitic acid)
served as silent psalm 
since bombardment at Fort Sumter qualm
including intervening wars
such as raging battles on the Somme
and the war between 
Northern and Southern Vietnam.

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 
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
acknowledged courtesy bunting
(strings of colorful, monochrome, 
beige triangular flags and lengths 
of fabric in the colors of national flags 
gathered and draped into swags 
or pleated into fan shapes) 
visibly draped and/or hung 
honoring the dead.
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