CELEBRATE VETERAN'S DAY

 

The Poppy of Flander's field

Please keep the veterans who fought for our FREEDOM in your prayers.  We must not forget the Veterans of other countries that fought for the freedom for many countries in WW II.   We give our humble thanks for 'all' veterans who have fought or been injured and died for freedom.

 

The Things That Make a Soldier Great
Edgar Guest
The things that make a soldier great and send him out to die,
To face the flaming cannon's mouth nor ever question why,
Are lilacs by a little porch, the row of tulips red,
The peonies and pansies, too, the old petunia bed,
The grass plot where his children play, the roses on the wall:
'Tis these that make a soldier great.
He's fighting for them all.

'Tis not the pomp and pride of kings that make a soldier brave;
'Tis not allegiance to the flag that over him may wave;
For soldiers never fight so well on land or on the foam
As when behind the cause they see the little place called home.
Endanger but that humble street whereon his children run,
You make a soldier of the man who never bore a gun.
What is it through the battle smoke the valiant soldier sees?

The little garden far away, the budding apple trees,
The little patch of ground back there, the children at their play,
Perhaps a tiny mound behind the simple church of gray.
The golden thread of courage isn't linked to castle dome
But to the spot, where'er it be — the humblest spot called home.
And now the lilacs bud again and all is lovely there
And homesick soldiers far away know spring is in the air;
The tulips come to bloom again, the grass once more is green,
And every man can see the spot where all his joys have been.

He sees his children smile at him, he hears the bugle call,
And only death can stop him now -- he's fighting for them all.

Gob Bless the men and women who fight, suffer devestating injuries and die for our freedom.

God Bless America

Love,

JEANNE

 

Comments

[Mrs. Magpie]

Lovely post, Jeanne. We love our troops, the ones who went before and the ones who serve now.

XO,

Sheila

[racheld]

Thank you, Jeanne, for that lovely message. I've always loved Edgar Guest, and enjoyed that our paper had a Guest poem on the bottom corner of a page quite often. Perhaps it was just a little quatrain or even a couplet from a much-larger poem, but we always looked to see. He was a genius with scan and rhyme.

I hope you're all well and enjoying a wonderful Fall.

love and,

rachel