[Alex Blair (RIP)]

June 6TH has come and gone again and I would like to post a poem I wrote.while sitting under a tree at a Gather up at Caldwells back in 2006..
Mike MacKinley read it out but I would like to post it here..
I was taken by the obituaries of our vets day after day..
This just rolled out of my head in the mater of an hour..I am not a poet ..but sing the odd sea shanty..

This poem was inspired by the sad daily obituaries of our Canadian veterans in every daily newspaper in Canada

Lest We Forget

T'was under the moon on the sixth of June,
In nineteen fourty-four...
The boys sailed out,
In warships stout..
As so many had before.

With rifle and shell,they stepped into hell...
For freedom,they'd fight and die....
The French shore ran,with blood and gore....
As Hitler's Armies fell...

No boys walked off that beach this day...
But men,so brave and strong...
Brothers now,by blood and death..
No man could part this bond.

A year went by as they fought and died...
To keep our country free...
Not all came back,from days so black,
As they died for you and me.

The years have past as they fight their last,
A battle they can not win.....
We'll raise our glass,to those who pass...
Sure God will let them in......

Valhalla calls, these brothers home,
The torch they'll pass on yet...
For freedom now,we'll honour them..
And say......
"Lest We Forget."




"OUR VETS......!!!!!"
Written by Alex Blair,June 2006.