Thank you for your service – 2 – v2 #VeteransDay #Thankyouforyourservice

Noting her license plate in the parking lot,
striking up a reverent conversation,
talking to the customer before me,
asking about her, her husband’s story.
 
She is the widow of a Pearl Harbor Survivor,
one who witnessed that horror, that loss,
seeing the flames that fateful day,
of history changing course.
 
We talked about his passing,
about the life they made together
how he struggled at first with the memories
what he went through in that moment.
 
They lived a long life together
many anniversaries, two children,
happy days, the American Dream,
before his recent passing
 
I said a heartfelt farewell,
“Thank you for your service”,
for what he sacrificed,
what they each endured,
for our God and our country.
 

====

edited November 11, 2021

Thank you for your service – 2 – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/11/thank-you-for-your-service-2-v2.html

Veterans Day 2021

November 10, 2021

Thank you for your service - 2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/11/thank-you-for-your-service-2.html

&

edited November 11, 2014

Thank you for your service – v5

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/11/thank-you-for-your-service-v5.html

Veteran’s Day

edited May 25, 2014

Thank you for your service – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/thank-you-for-your-service-v4.html

edited May 24, 2014

Thank you for your service – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/thank-you-for-your-service-v3.html

Edited November 13, 2012

Thank you for your service – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/11/thank-you-for-your-service-v2.html

November 11, 2012

Thank you for your service

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/11/thank-you-for-your-service.html

Veterans’ Day

http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/

&

Worship Theme: Laity Sunday
John 13:35

Mark 12:38-44

1 Kings 17:8-16

Call to Worship

Unison Prayer

Prayer of Dedication

and sermon – “Building a Caring Church”

by Richard Fleury

Pastor Ruth Foss

sermon blog

meditation blog

“God’s Whisper” blog

Suncook United Methodist Church

Suncook, NH

November 11, 2012

Laity Sunday

 

Christ, Faith, God, grace, love, calling, purpose, servant, Veterans Day, patriotism, Pearl Harbor Survivor, Pearl Harbor, Thank you for your service,

 

#Christ #Faith #God #grace #love #calling #purpose #servant #VeteransDay #PearlHarborSurvivor #PearlHarbor #Thankyouforyourservice

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Thank you for your service – 2 #Thankyouforyourservice #VeteransDay

Noting the license plate in the parking lot,
striking up a reverent conversation,
talking to the customer before me,
asking about her, her husband’s story.
 
She is the widow of a Pearl Harbor Survivor,
one who knew that horror, that loss,
seeing the flames that fateful day,
history changing course.
 
We talked about his passing,
about the life they made together
how he struggled at first with the memories
what he went through in the moment.
 
They lived a long life together
many anniversaries, children,
happy days, the American Dream,
before his recent passing
 
I said a heartfelt farewell,
“Thank you for your service”,
for what he sacrificed,
what they endured,
for God and our country.
 

====

November 10, 2021

Thank you for your service - 2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/11/thank-you-for-your-service-2.html

&

edited November 11, 2014

Thank you for your service – v5

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/11/thank-you-for-your-service-v5.html

Veteran’s Day

edited May 25, 2014

Thank you for your service – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/thank-you-for-your-service-v4.html

edited May 24, 2014

Thank you for your service – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/thank-you-for-your-service-v3.html

Edited November 13, 2012

Thank you for your service – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/11/thank-you-for-your-service-v2.html

November 11, 2012

Thank you for your service

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/11/thank-you-for-your-service.html

Veterans’ Day

http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/

&

Worship Theme: Laity Sunday
John 13:35

Mark 12:38-44

1 Kings 17:8-16

Call to Worship

Unison Prayer

Prayer of Dedication

and sermon – “Building a Caring Church”

by Richard Fleury

Pastor Ruth Foss

sermon blog

meditation blog

“God’s Whisper” blog

Suncook United Methodist Church

Suncook, NH

November 11, 2012

Laity Sunday

 

Christ, Faith, God, grace, love, calling, purpose, servant, Veteran’s Day, patriotism, Pearl Harbor Survivor, Pearl Harbor, Thank you for your service,

 

#Christ #Faith #God #grace #love #calling #purpose #servant #VeteransDay #PearlHarborSurvivor #PearlHarbor #Thankyouforyourservice

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Pearl Reconsidered – v2

For so long, in my life,

unable to discern, to appreciate

the moment of shock, or anger,

of desire for revenge, for a call to duty

to vigilance, to service to our nation

not like anything in my experience,

the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Day of Infamy,

December 7, 1941 (can you hear his voice too?)

But our lives changed, and we know their pain

the anger they felt, seventy-five years gone by

because we were visited by cowards in the skies

Kamikazes of another zealot, another madman

bent on surprise and attack on chaos

when the towers fell, we were pulled back

to the crackling radio and

FDR’s righteous indignation

We too knew what it felt like

and we will never forget

Too bad the enemy is no longer

a nation-state

====

edited December 7, 2016

Pearl Reconsidered – v2

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

75^th anniversary of the attack

December 8, 2006 19:40

Pearl Reconsidered

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/12/pearl-reconsidered.html

edited September 10, 2016

Terror – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/09/terror-v3.html

15^th Anniversary of attacks of September 11, 2001

edited January 7, 2016

Terror – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/terror-v2.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/terror-v2_7.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/terror-v2_75.html

posted February 17, 2004

written 9/11/01 22:12

Terror

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/terror.html

&

edited September 11, 2015

Raising the Colors – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/raising-colors-v4.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/raising-colors-v4_11.html

(editing version 2)

September 11, 2015,

14^th anniversary of attacks of September 11, 2015

Edited September 11, 2012

new poem – “An Audible Gasp - 2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-audible-gasp-2.html

September 11, 2012

“A Gasp”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-gasp.html

written about my experience at

Franklin Pierce Law Center

Concord, NH

on September 11, 2001

in the TV lounge

where we all stayed, transfixed by the images

&

latest 20 poems about

September 11, 2001

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/September%2011

&

posted February 22, 2004

written 11/6/03 13:30, edits 11/8/03 12:46

Circles

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/circles.html
About the print show at Pierce Law by Aaron Brown of November 2003. He said the prints were about the events of 9/11/01, especially the twisted metal of the bombed buildings. They came months after the attack when he finally returned to print work after a lengthy hiatus when he wrote instead. His wife shared that they all came out in a burst of activity over a single week. Aaron would only get a few hours of sleep each night and was almost working round the clock in the studio. His activities were so frenetic and continuous that he left the paints out, and would merely spray them so they remained wet and fresh.

&

written and posted September 11, 2004

Three Years

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/09/three-years.html

about September 11, 2001

&

September 11, 2007

Where Will They Attack

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2007/09/where-will-they-attack.html

&

December 8, 2006 19:40

Pearl Reconsidered

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/12/pearl-reconsidered.html

&

edited December 7, 2014

Because They Died – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/12/because-they-died-v4.html

(editing version 2)

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

&

edited December 7, 2014

Anniversary – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/12/anniversary-v2.html

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

8/29/2002

Anniversary

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/06/anniversary.html

&

President Roosevelt’s Address to the Nation / Declaration of War

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm

&

edited November 11, 2014

Because They Died – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/11/because-they-died-v3.html

Veteran’s Day

edited May 25, 2014

Because They Died – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/because-they-died-v2.html

May 31, 2010

Because They Died

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/05/because-they-died-not-for-barbeques-day.html

Memorial Day

===========

edited September 11, 2016

his body slumped – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/09/his-body-slumped-v2.html

September 10, 2016

entombed within the rubble

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/09/entombed-within-rumble.html

edited September 10, 2016

Circles – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/09/circles-v3.html

edited January 7, 2016

Circles – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/circles-v2.html 

posted February 22, 2004

written 11/6/03 13:30, edits 11/8/03 12:46

Circles

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/circles.html

edited September 10, 2016

As I woke this morning – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/09/as-i-woke-this-morning-v4.html

September 10, 2016

his body slumped

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/09/his-body-slumped.html

15^th anniversary of attacks of September 11, 2001

-------

edited November 23, 2015

As I woke this morning – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/11/as-i-woke-this-morning-v3-as-i-woke.html

(editing version 2)

&

September 22, 2011

Fruits of Rage

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/09/fruits-of-rage.html

melding the consequence of possibly executing an innocent man

and the decade since September 11, 2001

September 21, 2011

Fruits of a Decade

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/09/fruits-of-decade.html

September 21, 2011

Seeds of Hate

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/09/seeds-of-hate.html

September 11, 2011

Reclaiming September 12

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/09/reclaiming-september-12th.html

September 11, 2011

Reliving these moments

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/09/reliving-these-moments.html

September 10, 2011

Terror Real

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/09/terror-real.html

10^th anniversary of September 11, 2001

and the plot to attack DC and NY

reported September 9, 2011

&

edited September 10, 2011

As I woke this morning – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/09/as-i-woke-this-morning-v2.html

all of my September 11, 2001 poems

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-september-11-2001-poems-before-news.html

----------------

September 11, 2008

As I woke this morning

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2008/09/as-i-woke-this-morning.html?m=0

On the anniversary of September 11, 2001

watching it my first year of law school

Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 42,500+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

America, child, creator, flag, love, grace, God, Poetry Where You Live, world, Pearl Harbor, September 11,  war, terror, faith, Lord, law, justice, judgment, Methodist, calling,

#child #creator #flag #God #poetry #senses #son #world #PearlHarbor #America #September11 #war #terror #faith #law #justice #911 #neverforget #remember911

Pearl Reconsidered – v2

For so long, in my life,

unable to discern, to appreciate

the moment of shock, or anger,

of desire for revenge, for a call to duty

to vigilance, to service to our nation

not like anything in my experience,

the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Day of Infamy,

December 7, 1941 (can you hear his voice too?)

But our lives changed, and we know their pain

the anger they felt, seventy-five years gone by

because we were visited by cowards in the skies

Kamikazes of another zealot, another madman

bent on surprise and attack on chaos

when the towers fell, we were pulled back

to the crackling radio and

FDR’s righteous indignation

We too knew what it felt like

and we will never forget

Too bad the enemy is no longer

a nation-state

====

edited December 7, 2016

Pearl Reconsidered – v2

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

75^th anniversary of the attack

December 8, 2006 19:40

Pearl Reconsidered

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/12/pearl-reconsidered.html

edited September 10, 2016

Terror – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/09/terror-v3.html

15^th Anniversary of attacks of September 11, 2001

edited January 7, 2016

Terror – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/terror-v2.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/terror-v2_7.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/terror-v2_75.html

posted February 17, 2004

written 9/11/01 22:12

Terror

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/terror.html

&

edited September 11, 2015

Raising the Colors – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/raising-colors-v4.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/raising-colors-v4_11.html

(editing version 2)

September 11, 2015,

14^th anniversary of attacks of September 11, 2015

Edited September 11, 2012

new poem – “An Audible Gasp - 2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-audible-gasp-2.html

September 11, 2012

“A Gasp”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-gasp.html

written about my experience at

Franklin Pierce Law Center

Concord, NH

on September 11, 2001

in the TV lounge

where we all stayed, transfixed by the images

&

latest 20 poems about

September 11, 2001

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/September%2011

&

posted February 22, 2004

written 11/6/03 13:30, edits 11/8/03 12:46

Circles

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/circles.html
About the print show at Pierce Law by Aaron Brown of November 2003. He said the prints were about the events of 9/11/01, especially the twisted metal of the bombed buildings. They came months after the attack when he finally returned to print work after a lengthy hiatus when he wrote instead. His wife shared that they all came out in a burst of activity over a single week. Aaron would only get a few hours of sleep each night and was almost working round the clock in the studio. His activities were so frenetic and continuous that he left the paints out, and would merely spray them so they remained wet and fresh.

&

written and posted September 11, 2004

Three Years

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/09/three-years.html

about September 11, 2001

&

September 11, 2007

Where Will They Attack

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2007/09/where-will-they-attack.html

&

December 8, 2006 19:40

Pearl Reconsidered

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/12/pearl-reconsidered.html

&

edited December 7, 2014

Because They Died – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/12/because-they-died-v4.html

(editing version 2)

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

&

edited December 7, 2014

Anniversary – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/12/anniversary-v2.html

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

8/29/2002

Anniversary

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/06/anniversary.html

&

President Roosevelt’s Address to the Nation / Declaration of War

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm

&

edited November 11, 2014

Because They Died – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/11/because-they-died-v3.html

Veteran’s Day

edited May 25, 2014

Because They Died – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/05/because-they-died-v2.html

May 31, 2010

Because They Died

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/05/because-they-died-not-for-barbeques-day.html

Memorial Day

===========

edited September 11, 2016

his body slumped – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/09/his-body-slumped-v2.html

September 10, 2016

entombed within the rubble

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/09/entombed-within-rumble.html

edited September 10, 2016

Circles – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/09/circles-v3.html

edited January 7, 2016

Circles – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/circles-v2.html 

posted February 22, 2004

written 11/6/03 13:30, edits 11/8/03 12:46

Circles

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/circles.html

edited September 10, 2016

As I woke this morning – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/09/as-i-woke-this-morning-v4.html

September 10, 2016

his body slumped

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/09/his-body-slumped.html

15^th anniversary of attacks of September 11, 2001

-------

edited November 23, 2015

As I woke this morning – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/11/as-i-woke-this-morning-v3-as-i-woke.html

(editing version 2)

&

September 22, 2011

Fruits of Rage

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/09/fruits-of-rage.html

melding the consequence of possibly executing an innocent man

and the decade since September 11, 2001

September 21, 2011

Fruits of a Decade

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/09/fruits-of-decade.html

September 21, 2011

Seeds of Hate

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/09/seeds-of-hate.html

September 11, 2011

Reclaiming September 12

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/09/reclaiming-september-12th.html

September 11, 2011

Reliving these moments

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/09/reliving-these-moments.html

September 10, 2011

Terror Real

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/09/terror-real.html

10^th anniversary of September 11, 2001

and the plot to attack DC and NY

reported September 9, 2011

&

edited September 10, 2011

As I woke this morning – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/09/as-i-woke-this-morning-v2.html

all of my September 11, 2001 poems

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-september-11-2001-poems-before-news.html

----------------

September 11, 2008

As I woke this morning

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2008/09/as-i-woke-this-morning.html?m=0

On the anniversary of September 11, 2001

watching it my first year of law school

Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 42,500+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Christ, Faith, God, grace, love, calling, purpose, Savior, Methodist, Poetry Where You Live, America, servant, Veteran’s Day, patriotism, Memorial Day, sacrifice, Pearl Harbor,

#Christ #Faith #God #grace #love #calling #purpose #UMC #servant #MemorialDay #VeteransDay #veteran #sacrifice #America #PearlHarbor