Here is my small tribute to our WW2 vets...
This came to me and just rolled out one early morning as I was reading the obits of all the WW2 vets..
Half hour later it was on paper...
I need another inspirational moment to write something for our new and ongoing vets..
This seems like a suitable time and place to post it...Poetic licence applies...
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."
At this point ,the speaker raises his glass,and calls for a toast...
"OUR VETS...!!!!"
Crowd answers....
"OUR VETS......!!!!!"
Written by Alex Blair,6th June 2006.
