Trip_Wire (RIP)
06-15-2005, 13:17
I would have liked to post this yesterday (6/14/05) since it was Flag Day; however, I just got it today. I liked it and thought most here would too!:
Why We Fly Our Flag
"Those Honored Dead"
by Marion G. Mahoney
"Why do you fly the flag today?"
My Grandson wants to know.
I fly it for the graveyards
where the countless crosses grow.
I fly the flag for children
whose fathers are a name.
A half-remembered memory
of a face within a frame.
I fly it for the families
of sons and daughters lost.
They know the price of liberty
How terrible the cost!
I fly the flag for veterans
who lost their youth in blood.
And saw their comrades slaughtered
in the carnage and the mud.
I fly it for the ones who marched
in cadence off to war.
To close their eyes forever
upon some foreign shore.
I fly the flag for grief poured
out Upon a granite wall.
The laying-on of hands that heals
the scars within us all.
I fly it for the sound of Taps---
that melancholy tune
that lays to rest those honored dead
who always die too soon.
Why We Fly Our Flag
"Those Honored Dead"
by Marion G. Mahoney
"Why do you fly the flag today?"
My Grandson wants to know.
I fly it for the graveyards
where the countless crosses grow.
I fly the flag for children
whose fathers are a name.
A half-remembered memory
of a face within a frame.
I fly it for the families
of sons and daughters lost.
They know the price of liberty
How terrible the cost!
I fly the flag for veterans
who lost their youth in blood.
And saw their comrades slaughtered
in the carnage and the mud.
I fly it for the ones who marched
in cadence off to war.
To close their eyes forever
upon some foreign shore.
I fly the flag for grief poured
out Upon a granite wall.
The laying-on of hands that heals
the scars within us all.
I fly it for the sound of Taps---
that melancholy tune
that lays to rest those honored dead
who always die too soon.