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Bring Them Home Now!!!!
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~~Freedom Is Not Free~~
I watched the flag pass by one
day.
It fluttered in the breeze
A young Marine saluted it, and
then
He stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud
With hair cut square and eyes
alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like
him
Had fallen through the years?
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilot's planes shot
down?
How many foxholes were soldiers'
graves?
No
Freedom is not Free
I heard the sound of Taps one
night,
When everything was still
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant "Amen"
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend
I thought of all the children
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington
No
Freedom is not Free!!
Please visit my tribute to:
~Col. Ted Guy~
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~~In Honor Of All POW/MIA's~~
I remember as a young girl, not understanding the Vietnam War and the angry feelings that I felt that so many young men were dying. I remember sitting at the dinner table during the 5 o'clock news when the first live footage of our soldiers aired. I remember watching, as some of them were being carried by others, I remember seeing some of them lying on the ground some wounded, some dead.
My mother was upset that the news media would show such graphic footage. I asked my father, what this was all about and why so many were dying over there. My father had no answer. I remember waiting to see the "ticker tape" parade on television, to welcome these brave soldiers home......I remember never seeing this.
I remember the Peace demonstrations. I remember the riots........I remember hearing of the men that were fleeing to Canada, and how angry this made me feel, but I still didn't understand WHY.......
I remember growing up across the street from our high school. I remember the boys......I remember hanging out at the bowling alley with them.....I remember seeing them graduate.......and then they were gone. Being so much younger than them, I never understood where they went, I remember thinking this couldn't happen in our home town.........But it did. Sadly, I can't remember their names.
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My questions were never answered then, I remember thinking that it was because I was a child and they thought I wouldn't understand. I am wiser now and realize that the reason no one had any answers for me was because no one else understood any of it either.
Why would we send so many of our young? Why would we fight a war that we had nothing to do with? Why would we delibrately send these men and women to scar them with nightmares for the rest of their lives? Why don't we just bring them home and let these people fight their own war? What was so important to us, that we had to be there? Why were there so many demonstrations, riots against these men and women that returned home? Why was there no "ticker tape" parade?
WHY WERE SO MANY LEFT BEHIND?
WHY WASN'T ANYONE DOING MORE TO BRING THESE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN HOME TO AMERICA, WHERE THEY BELONG?
Am I the only one that has questions? Am I the only one that cares? Am I too patriotic? Am I the only one that feels the government lied to us?
What can I, one person, possibly do to make a difference?
If for some reason, you are not
angry yet, or you do not
have a lump in your throat,
or tears in your eyes....
(even if you do!)
There's more......
We all know that 591 came home in Operation Homecoming, but, did you know that in Sept. of 1972 the General of the Army, Gen. Quang, told the North Vietnamese Politburo that they (the Vietnamese) were holding 1,205 Americans as POWs and that only 368 had been acknowledged or were to be acknowledged to the American authorities? The document was uncovered just after Clinton's first inauguration and the first thing his administration did with the document was classify it. The document can be found at:
It is up to each of us to let
our government officials know that we want our men and women to come home.....TODAY.....NOW!!!!
Here are some email addresses
to write:
President
Vice
President
Congressmen
Senators
I was surfing the web one day
for a midi file and came across this site, Welcome
to Dale and Mary's Very Personal Home..., I saw at the bottom of this
page "Adopt a POW/MIA today".......I thought, could this
site hold the answers that I
was looking for all these years?
Indeed it held the most important answer to, "what can I do?"
I wish to THANK Dale and Mary for opening up my eyes to the fact that "I am NOT alone in my feelings and questions".
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