I remember one Veteran’s Day
more than eleven years ago
now
(where has the time gone)
late at night, that whole
weekend,
the stillness, the tears
muffled silence, reading the
names,
the overwhelming consequence
in the rain, in that place
Ten years after
the scar cut into the land
the controversy, the Wall,
names written in stone
those who fell so far away
in the jungles of Vietnam
their spirits coming home
to this hallowed ground
Tears of strong men, a dam
burst,
who answered their country’s
call
falling in the rain in this
place
on this holy ground, pain,
overcome by emotion
the power of this place
Kneeling by the Wall
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edited May 27, 2014
“In the Rain, in that
Place – v3
edited May 26, 2014
“In the Rain, in that
Place – v2”
Memorial Day
November 11, 2010
“In the Rain, in that
Place”
Veteran’s Day 2010
and remembering being
at the Vietnam Memorial
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Fund
during the 10th
anniversary
Veteran’s Day 1992
&
edited May 27, 2014
Left at the Wall – v3
Edited May 26, 2014
Left at the Wall – v2
Memorial Day
August 5, 2006 18:05
Left at the Wall
&
All of my Veteran’s Day
poems
&
All of my Memorial Day
poems
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