Family Memorial Day Poems

“Today You Leave for College”
written by Michelle Lynn LeBlanc
2023/09/03


Today you leave for college 
We will certainly miss you so 
The years have gone by so...

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We all know the reason Memorial Day came to be…
to honor and to mourn those who died to keep our country free.

I imagine most people...

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Death knell sounds over our village green
For all the veterans who eternally lie,
Whose presence will never again be seen
Because on foreign fields they had to...

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At 3 p.m. in every state,
All buglers, young and old,
Will join to play a tune which
On this date has oft consoled.

The song is 24 notes...

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Poem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours

Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior 
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women, 
based upon a...

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God Bless those men and women who serve our nation in her arm forces
God have mercy for those who gave the ultimate sacrifice
Memorial Day we...

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I remember Memorial Days from long, long ago
In the mountains, there was still a chance of snow,
But we took our flowers to the old cemetery
Where...

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Because of you
we can get up every morning
and go to work
run errands at lunch time
drive through McDonald’s
fill up our gas tanks
and make it back to...

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Seventy five years to the day
Where the country celebrated 
And memories were made. 

A day of happiness when the news
Came through, cos emotions were high
But...

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Wow! welcoming the dawn the series of events yet linger on I fight for the calls and fight for your calls because by the laws...

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The Spirits of Culloden. 
This is like a pilgrimage, a try tae come every year,
Gather at the cairn, meet old friends, wipe away a tear.
Standin...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Pairs of boots sit empty
They no longer wear a shine
For they now are covered
With blood, dirt, and grime

The owners always knew
They could lose their life...

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Today held many a smile, wide ones,
blazing under the cloudless heavens.
I put off thoughts of the date -
those musings are for the evening.

Today held my...

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For the entire world it’s the start to the work week 
In America today silent moments no one speaks 
For all the battles that are...

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