Honoring their dead #Ukraine #Ukrainians

So unlike their enemy, Russia:
a nation of serfs, of Dead Souls,
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 each funeral procession,
paying honor with their time, the calendar,
the 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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May 7, 2025
Honoring their dead
 
Edited April 28, 2025
Gutted, empty, hollow
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/gutted-empty-hollow.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 April 4, 2025
You hold each of them so closely
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/you-hold-each-of-them-so-closely.html
Edited January 13, 2025
Sacred Days – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/01/sacred-days-v3.html
Edited September 26, 2024
the soul of a monster – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-soul-of-monster-v2.html
September 10, 2024
The stain of innocent blood – v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-stain-of-innocent-blood-v5.html
Edited September 21, 2024
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/new name August 27, 2024
Streets of their cities run red with blood
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/streets-of-their-cities-run-red-with.html
Edited August 1, 2024
Resolve personified – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/resolve-personified-v3.html
 
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