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Where Have They Gone? country as flag
It's been a while since yesterday
And all the B-29's have flown away.
No more do they fly through the sky
At an elevation of thirty-thousand feet high!

Many pilots, too, have gone;
And very few remain
To dream of yesterday
And the mighty Superfort plane.

World War Two has run its course
And young men have grown old;
Better seek them out before
Their stories cannot be told.

They are dying at the rate
Of two-thousand a day.
Hear what they say today
About the B-29's of yesterday!
By C. Douglas Caffey
Copyright 2006
Listed April 3, 2009

Author's Bio:
C. Douglas Caffey is a disabled veteran of WWII. He served (1944-1946) in the 509th Composite Bomb Group, 58th Wing, Air Photo Unit, 20th Air Force, United States Army Air Force. It was the 509th who dropped the atomic bombs on Japan and did the atom bomb tests at Bikini in the Pacific. A chronic sufferer of PTSD since WWII, Doug is a former college dean. He started writing poetry several years ago and though he doesn't claim to be a poet, he does claim to write from the heart.
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