Freedom Isn't Free

[Tina]

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 pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at see
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No,freedom isn't free.
I heard the sound of Taps one night,
When everthing was still,
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
that Taps had ment"Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffen.
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 greaves in Arlington
No,Freedom isn't free

~author unknown~

Enjoy your freedom and please stop for a
moment and say a prayer for our servicemen
and women.
Of all the gifts you could give the US Soldiers,Payer
is he ver best one. Always remember those who gave
the ultimate sacrifice to keep us free...

[Jerry D]

amen