Honoring their dead – v2

So unlike their enemy, Russia:
A nation of serfs, of Dead Souls,
blind slaves, vassals to the Madman,
the dictator hiding in the bunker,
no thought of human life,
launching meat assault,
killing wounded comrades,
soldiers left in foreign lands
even denying their deaths…
 
This brave people are so different:
Honoring their dead, every fallen hero,
standing at attention in silence, at 9am,
kneeling for every funeral procession,
paying honor with their time, the calendar,
faces on each tombstone, their mourning,
their solemn tributes, their flags waving,
united in their pain, in their memory,
for all they hold most dear, Ukraine…
 
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Edited May 22, 2025
Honoring their dead – v2
 
Edited May 22, 2025
You hold each of them so closely – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/05/you-hold-each-of-them-so-closely-v2.html
Edited May 22, 2025
Gutted, empty, hollow – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/05/gutted-empty-hollow-v2.html
Edited April 14, 2025
Screaming into the Void – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/screaming-into-void-v3.html
Revised April 11, 2025
Kryvyi Rih – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/kryvyi-rih-v2-kryvyi-rih-not-just.html
Edited January 13, 2025
Sacred Days – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/01/sacred-days-v3.html
Their best sons and daughters – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/09/their-best-sons-and-daughters-v3.html
Edited September 6, 2024
Flying from every flagpole – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/09/flying-from-every-flagpole-v2.html
Edited August 30, 2024
The dead do not yet rest in peace – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-dead-do-not-yet-rest-in-peace-v2.html
Edited August 1, 2024
Resolve personified – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/resolve-personified-v3.html
 
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