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A Marine's Poem
Do you wonder why that rifle
Is hanging in my den? You know, I rarely take it down But I touch it now and then. It's rather slow and heavy By standards of today But not too many years ago It swept the rest away. It's held its own in battles Through snow, or rain, or sun And I had one just like it, This treasured old M1. It went ashore at Bougainville In Nineteen Forty-Three. It stormed the beach at Tarawa Through a bullet-riddled sea. Saipan knew its strident bark, Kwajalein, its sting. The rocky caves of Peleliu Resounded with its ring. It climbed the hill on Iwo With men who wouldn't stop And left our nation's banner Flying on the top. It poked its nose in Pusan, Screamed an angry roar And took the First Division From Chosin Reservoir. Well, time moves on And things improve With rifles and with men, And that is why the two of us Are sitting in my den. But sometimes on a winter night, Remembering times before, I know that if the bugle blew We'd be a team once more. written by an unknown Marine
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A great poem about a great rifle !!
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