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Memorial Day

by  Al Grove

It's Memorial Day, we should have fun

picnicking and playing in the sun

but while you're cooking on the grill

remember the guys who went up a hill,

into the worst of the enemy fire

their situation was extremely dire

With their buddies falling to the ground

never again to make a sound.

Or the boys who died on Omaha Beach

when safety wasn't within their reach

With bullets in their bodies, they fell into the sea.

they gave their lives for you and me.

So while we're playing and having fun

Remember the boys and all they've done.

They fought hard and they were brave,

so cherish all the things they gave.

They gave their future to save our past

and to make sure that freedom would always last,

and our flag would fly in the noonday sun

over the schoolyards where children run.

Over the hills and over a field

so our constitution would never yield.

They laid in the mud, while their blood drained

so we'd always live where freedom reigned.

So on this day while we dance and play,

let's take the time to kneel and pray,

for those brave boys who are now departed

who died in battle, they were brave hearted.

Some of those hills were:

Bunker Hill (Revolutionary War)  Big and little Round Top (Civil War)

San Juan Hill (Spanish American War)  (Iwo Jima  World War II Pacific front)

Battle of the bulge (World War II Europe) Hamburger Hill (Viet Nam)

and the list goes on.