Just a few more for this Memorial Day. Thank you veterans for all that we have, for without you we’d have nothing.. God Bless America and those who served her so honorably.
Enjoy your day, they provided it for us.
Jake
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING
THANKS TO THOSE WHO SERVED
When each day that we awake
and it’s freedom that we find,
let us all give thanks to those,
who gave to it their time.
Some gave to it their blood
some, even gave to it their minds,
thank the airmen, the sailors,
the guardsmen and grunts of all kinds.
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They came from all religions
and every continent,
mothers and fathers proudly,
their children, they sent.
To defend all of our freedoms
that have been so well-defined,
thank the airmen, the sailors,
the guardsmen and grunts of all kinds.
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From every race and color
and gender you will find,
they were there when needed
some, leaving all they had behind.
So, when each day that we awake
and it’s freedom that we find,
thank the airmen, the sailors,
the guardsmen and grunts of all kinds.
***
May 2009
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The Fruit Of Freedom
Freedom tastes, the sweetest fruit,
but bitter, is it grown,
for blood, it is the water,
and the seed, is courage shown.
The sunlight is conviction,
and hardship, oft be known.
But to taste, the fruit of freedom,
many souls, have need be sown.
***
Jack Downing
Jan. 2012
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THAT FARTHEST SHORE
My body is but a vessel,
for the being that I am.
So, I won’t bear no worldly troubles,
into the Promise Land.
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I will take no earthly tortures,
no wounds, nor human pains,
and the hurt this body feels,
shall rest, with my remains.
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Then I will go, and dwell in peace,
upon that farthest shore.
And in comfort and tranquility,
I shall live forever more.
***
Jack Downing
Sept. 2011
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