With Fireworks – v3

Not like in the summer

With fireworks, parades, with speeches

when we honor them, each year.

Remembering them,

for what they gave

their lives for freedom

so that we would remain free.

We still pause, today, in this season

to think about that the dream that is America

that it would remain strong.

We stop and bow in prayer

for their lives lost, injured,

for those still out in the fields,

so that we may live free.

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edited November 11, 2014

With Fireworks – v3

Veteran’s Day

edited May 25, 2014

With Fireworks – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/with-fireworks-v2.html

May 25, 2008

With Fireworks

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2008/05/with-fireworks.html

Memorial Day

written at church, before

the Rejuvenation evening service

Wesley United Methodist Church

Concord, NH

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