Remembering Memorial - Revisited

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I originally wrote “Remembering Memorial” on 24 May 2020. Thinking I was through, I posted it on Facebook, Poetry Soup and e-mailed it to friends. When I awoke, this Memorial Day morning (25 May 2020), I was bothered that, for me, it was not complete. Those who did not give all, left parts of themselves where they served with those who did. The experience is a part of us always. Some of our self was left where we served, and some of where we served returned with us. “Remembering Memorial – Revisited” is written to reflect all of that. Welcome home, brothers and sisters of all wars.

Remembering Memorial - Revisited
(Edited on Memorial Day, 25 May 2020)
By Franklin Price
05/24/2020

Remembering Memorial
The last Monday in May
We need to all remember
Why we Nationalized this day

Began with Decoration Day
To put flowers on the tombs
Of ones killed in the civil war
That sent them to their dooms

Officially made Memorial Day,
In one nine seven one
Was made a National event
To honor dead, of all wars done

Always keep within your thoughts
That our freedoms are not free
The ones, we honor on this day,
Gave freedom up, for you and me

Went when they heard their country call
Did not flee or turn away
We recognize their sacrifice
And the price they had to pay

Don't forget vets left alive
Who served and came back scarred
Their fight, for all our freedoms,
Has made their own lives hard

Mentally or physically
Each day they're going through
Affected by their service time
And what they had to do

They're not yet with their brothers
And their sisters who gave all.
Yet part of them was left there,
Where their duty made the call

Some only recognize this day
As beginning of the Summer
They are the unappreciative
Don't become one of their number

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