Sad Veterans Day Poems

You ask me- why it is, that I flinch ?
With every sudden movement , that I don't see coming.
 Like I expect to be hit...

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Say goodbye to Pretty Polly
The lass from the Co-op store
She went and joined the Army
And they sent her off to War 
Off to far Afghanistan...

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I have a friend who is a veteran.                 ...

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Two of our have gone missing today
Two guys from the corps sad to say
The demons they have are strong
Lets get these guys back where they...

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I remember them fighting
Their death no more bad
I remember them needing
where life left them sad

I remember their calling
for right that was had
I remember them loving
what...

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2 Old Veteran Soldiers 

Raising money selling poppies 

In our Local Hospital Foyer 

I Salute you fine Sir's 

Still Serving in Service after the Fact

You...

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Across spacious skies the eagle flies
Over mountains, valleys, and plains;
On majestic wing but with no song to sing
For the greedy are robbing all gains.

A nation's...

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Smoke wafted across the village,
The swack,swack, swack, sound
Of a helicopter inbound, 
was heard,
Grass and dust churned and curled,
As it landed, 
Amidst the carnage caused,
By it’s...

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Sometimes it seems
like it was a series of dreams-
that day when I wore that dress of white
and the world had finally felt so right 
then...

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American Soldier

God Bless you all, American Soldiers. 
For your dedication: to Our Country.
 
For putting your own life first; 
You are even sacrificing; 
Losing your...

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Dad Did Die

Why was it really meant to be?
Dad did die serving his country
Me and my family are left alone
Each day when the sun had...

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Veteran Almost a Goner

Were all bodily harmed and almost a goner
Yet they still returned home with much honor
And how sad it is and breaks our...

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new pages
old pages
pages of my poetry
pages and pages down under
under my desk dwelling 
under in boxes
boxes dwelling and mingling 
boxes dwelling down under my desk
desk...

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Note not sent To My Dad on Veteran’s Day:
A letter you wrote , I found
in Old Uncle Laurie’s house.
You were young, Seventeen
You wrote of things...

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A people persecuted beyond imagination;
To help them he felt, was his obligation.
He joined the army in World War II;
Not knowing his hell would be Eyes...

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