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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

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
May 25, 2008
With Fireworks
Memorial Day
written at church, before
the Rejuvenation evening service
Wesley United Methodist Church
Concord, NH

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