Jim Slaughter Poet Epitaph

Epitaph For An Unknown Soldier

For Memorial Day, 2023...


Rest now
The wind knows your name
It is heard in the song it sings to the stars
Now you can rest
And rest assured that no day
Shall erase you
From the memory of time

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Tom Cunningham June 3, 2023 at 11:48 AM We never forget their great sacrifice Jim, I salute each and every one But for them we'd be living under a dictatorship. Tom Jim Slaughter June 3, 2023 at 1:44 PM Thanks, Tom. And if Donald Trump ever gets his way again...we very well could be.

Ilene Bauer May 28, 2023 at 3:20 PM This is so touching and very beautiful, Jim! Jim Slaughter May 29, 2023 at 9:32 AM Thank you, Ilene.

J. Summers May 28, 2023 at 1:10 PM So very well expressed. John Jim Slaughter May 28, 2023 at 2:06 PM Thank you, John.