History Memorial Day Poems

Author
                 Ste.phen ambrose
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War, War
We need more War.
Come patriots,
Come comrades,
Let’s all go to Waaaar!

Raise your banners,
Gather your muskets,
Sharpen your swords,
Let's all go to Waaaar!

Won’t it be fun,
To kill...

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By the river of no return
Where we sat
There we wait 
Remembering our homeland 

We were taken into captivity 
Requiring from us total submission 
How shall...

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At five feet, five and a hundred and ten
The Marines said, “sorry, too small of a man.”
Yet he became greatest of World War men,
The Army’s...

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The Mountains of the Dead                    ...

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THE BLACK TUESDAY
(Tribute to the Victims of the EndSARS Lekki Tollgate Massacre in Lagos, Nigeria; Tuesday, October 20, 2020)

Dark is the night,
Darker the soul,
Fathomless depths,
Stories...

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Sing Broken Beyond Mankind


because I speak


                IN   

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Suburban waste stretches beyond and far away
Languishes under the hot hazy sun
Seasons reap
Memories run
Remembering things better left unseen
Memories reel in the theater on the mind
Things...

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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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For all those who have protected our nation,
for the men and women wearing the uniform,
We thank you for the ultimate freedom.
Sometimes we forget the preciousness,
of...

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The Real Wars We Fight
By George W. Clever-----29 August 2020

The wars we all fight are mainly in our head, heart and soul. 
This old Marine...

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Officially called Decoration Day
proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan
first observed on 30 May 1868
Waterloo N.Y. officially declared the birthplace
by President Lyndon Johnson...

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Memorial Day, as I knew it, seems many centuries ago.
When sometimes those in service came back on a joyful, 
surprise furlough.


Families, friends, fun,~oh how with...

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Millennials standing most assured
need no knowledge of the war
Too evolved, won’t be anymore,
Yet lessons prevent they ignore

For war was long before their time
and now all...

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On the open fields across the river
Where the land is parched sallow 
The patchy grass in cold quiver
When the freezing icy winds blow!!

The grassy fields...

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