Turn and Toss

Turn and Toss Seventy years ago it had been When Normandy Invasion we were in Bombs would explode and bullets flash And on occasion a plane did crash. Even a ship sank just off shore And many will never see anymore Samuel Chase is name of one ship Which under water slowly would slip. Jack Schlegel of 82d was last one out Still there seemed to be much doubt As the paratroopers got quite a scare Looked back and plane exploded in midair. Boys who were Bedford's both were there Stories of their deaths many still share Only eight thousand veterans are left alive Nearly ten thousand buried who didn't survive. Those who died are high in heaven now And still remember their souls somehow And when we will see every white cross Dreams always cause us to turn and Toss.