Veterans Poems - Poems about Veterans

Duty calls from valleys deep and wide, Wide like hearts where brave resolve does bide. Bide the storms, through fire and endless rain, Rain of trials met with a calm refrain. Refrain from fear when darkness clouds the sky, Sky holds hope where eagles dare to fly. Fly with honor carved in steel and soul, Soul forged firm in sacrifice and role. Role...

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our heroes went to war also know what there fighting for, to give there life's to keep us safe to fight along to save human race. in our hearts we remember you know one knows what they really went through, to stand and fight and brother in arms, to pray to god as know its bad, remember the day...

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They do not march now, but they still stand-- shoulder to shoulder in quiet granite lines. Each flag breathes like a memory fluttering in the hush between heartbeats. They are not just names, not just dates-- they are echoes of last letters, mud-heavy boots, songs sung beneath a foreign sky. We walk between them, heads bowed, and feel the weight of freedom we never had to earn. This silence is not...

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TRULY SAD ABUSE OF POWER GATHER THEE UNDESIRABLE BEINGS ON THE SPECTRUM TO COMMIT THEE ULTIMATE BY BREAKING AND ENTERING TRESPASSING SEARCHING THROUGH VETERANS HOMES CRUSHING AMERICAN FLAGS FOR THEE OUTFIT OF SCUM ON EARTH MY PRAYERS ARE WITH THE CAPO CIRO GARGANO HIDING OUT FAKING HIS DEATH HIDING BEHIND UNDESIRABLE BEINGS ON THE SPECTRUM...

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Medal Of Honor Day March 25,2025 today is a day for heroes a time to salute the bravest the ones who went beyond the call put life and limb on the line for their comrades and country let us give thanks for those Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine and Coast Guard veterans who have earned the right to wear The Congressional Medal of Honor ...

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The Stars and the Stripes, Is the blood that we shed. I pledge allegiance to the flag, Running through my head. The Home of the Brave, And the land of the free. Soldiers died to give their life, For you, and for me. The Stars and the Stripes, Is the blood that we shed. I’m proud to be...

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VERILY I PRAY TO JESUS YAHWEH INCLUDING ALLAH ITS BEEN TWO YEARS NOW WHEN BIDEN AND ALL THE HORRORS SEVERE THREATS DURING COVID OUR LIVES IN SHAMBLES AN YET DOMESTIC TERRORISTS RIPPED OUR FLAGS MORBIDLY BREAKING INTO OUR HOME WE HAVE SPENT OVER 3000 IN NEW LOCKS LOCK SMITHS SECURITY CAMS THE JAN 6TH NEIGHBORS...

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Daughter of the Sandman War-story woman stands astride the country now, book-store tour bleary now, author hands aching from signing the $20.99 paperback professing her father’s Marne Corps Desert Storm glory now. Book-tour daughter lays inside the hotel room now, calling her shattered dad across the gulf, calling the shaking-hands dad man “Geppetto” because, when she calls, he is always in the workshop...

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Respire Make of me a banished son To walk this world alone With heavy heart and heavy load The boulder and the stone Make of me a loyal friend A soldier at your side To be there when it matters most A brother all your life Make of me a mighty sword An instrument of death I was me but now he's gone And this is...

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What they don’t tell You What the recruiters tell you: “Be all you can be.” “An Army of one.” “Fly high with the Air Force.” “Join the Navy and see the world.” “Be the best. Be a Marine.” “Join the National Guard and get an education and keep your job.” Things recruiters leave out: Watching your friend(s) go home in body bag(s). The dirt and...

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concrete cold detroit manhole steam.... brief warm no homes veterans huddling visions wars hell traffic taxies blur..... city brittle in the bitter...

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Thank You For Your Service “Thank you for your service." How many times have I heard that. Do they know or understand? Do they really care? I fought at Bloody Antietam, Shiloh, Gettysburg and Franklin. Blue and gray, makes no difference. Casualties measured by the thousands. I fought at Belleau Woods and Meuse-Argonne. Mud filled trenches stinking with filth. Mustard gas stinging eyes, burning lungs. The war...

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Shattered Limb broken tree limbs lie shattered on the ground no longer useful the one-armed veteran looks on with understanding ...

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Tomb of the Unknown Twenty-one steps south down the black mat Turns and faces east toward the tomb for twenty-one seconds Turns and faces north, changes gun to outside shoulder and waits twenty-one seconds Marches twenty-one steps up the mat Turns and faces east for twenty-one seconds Turns and faces south, changes gun to outside shoulder and waits twenty-one seconds Twenty-one steps...

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2012 Celtic 2013 Shamrock 2014 choir music ministry 2015 helping my son care for his wife during chemo finally 2016 welcoming my granddaughter six weeks old whose mother was battling cancer watching their brave battle steadfast this took several years I was there still in prayer singing in the choir die hard PTA helping others...

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