America Remembers

13 Jul 2010

·Falcon005832

Spinning through the darkness The confusion of attack, As the mayhem and the bloodshed Echoes all throughout Iraq, An explosion then a soldier falls In death his soul is taken, But the memory he’s left behind Shall never be forsaken. A coffin draped beneath the flag Three shots ring through the air, As a mother and a father watch A man leads them in prayer, The empty coffin’s lowered As in to the ground it’s set, But the mem’ry of the man inside Our nation won’t forget. Although a man is lost to us, His body burned to embers. The spirit of his soul lives on; …America Remembers.

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Raised in the American midwest, I left home to go to school in the mountains of Colorado. While there, I found a passion in History and abandoned my previous loves of math and science. The one thing I'd learn I missed most about those studies was...

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