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June 6th, 19** |
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It began at a Royal Air Force Base
On the Isle of
Britain
We waddle across the flight line
Carrying
extra weight on the abdomen
Like young women carrying
child
They board their cargo planes
Packed in shoulder
to shoulder
Engines roar and silence reigns
Observers on the ground look up
As wave after wave pass
by
"That's Power" awe would say
As the waves of planes
pass by
Like waves on the beach
White bubbles fill the
sky
Landing in the fields of St-Mere-Eglise
On this
land many had to die
No weapons on this day
We
gathered our Chutes
Don our packs, adjust the weight
March with muddied boots
Past a reviewing stand
Cheered with whoops and hoots
From survivors of forty
years
They landed with gliders and chutes
This
show was for them
The honored the brave
The soldiers
who hit the beach
The soldiers who stayed
The soldiers
from the sky
They crashed and laid
The soldier who now
inhabit
Normandy Beach Graves
We also honor
Those who survived
They did not give up
When their
friends died
Names we should remember
Barrett, Butts,
Deglopper and Kelly
Ehlers, Cole, Defranzo, Monteith
Ogden, Pinder, Roosevelt, and Peregory |
By Mark I. Kirkmeyer
Copyright 2003
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November 10, 2012 |
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About
Author...
Mark Kirkmeyer served as a Light Weapons/Medical Specialist in the U.S. Army (1983-88), the U.S. Army Reserve (1988-1992), and the California National Guard (1992-1995). He is Gulf War Veteran (1991) and served in Korea (1986-87).It is illegal to
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