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Six Young Men

Lonely soldiers, far from home, fighting for a way of life that is the only way they have known. Maybe it is wrong but it is wrong to their thinking to have others push their ideals into a life that is not your own. The young soldiers will fight for their freedoms to the death... Solid granite stone, bear above the ground, marking a spot along the wire road that will become a place called The Rock, Georgia. A little known battle raged there in the civil war. The soldiers decided their freedom had to be now, love beckoned the boys to their homes and sweethearts. Their lives ended at The Rock, execution style, fighting to go home. Abandoning their arms, to return to home and the ones who mattered most. War has their blood spread on The rock, and six simple unmarked graves along the road, forgotten... Ideals lost, lives lost, love lost, forgotten graves of earth, in the shade of the oak tree. This is about CSA graves at The Rock, Ga, that is all that is real, the rest is fiction.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 12/31/2009 4:50:00 AM
It was all to real Doris, I see no Fiction here at all. My Two days of Hell tells the same story, just another location...Such loss....Well done here for a tribute to Six Young Men....God Bless....Taz
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Date: 12/21/2009 10:44:00 AM
Fiction is the fence of truth ... may your imagination ever blooms.
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Date: 12/20/2009 4:54:00 PM
War is never a pretty picture wherever and we must always remember. Thanks for the reminder, Doris
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Date: 12/14/2009 11:11:00 AM
I like this....perhaps one day ill stop there on my trips...id like to sit beneath one of the trees left there, and find my inspiration in the blood soaked earth.
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Date: 12/12/2009 7:25:00 AM
Kool piece Doris >> James
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Date: 12/11/2009 12:52:00 PM
Very interesting poetry you have posted today Doris. I enjoyed reading it. Wishing you the best always in your writing endeavors. Love, Carol
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Date: 12/10/2009 10:13:00 PM
Nice write...enjoyed..Marty
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Date: 12/10/2009 3:38:00 PM
Very informative to me who has lived here all my life and have not stopped there to read the placque. Keep the informative pen flowing. Mom Soup Mail
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