Marine Corps Stories - Patriotic Poems
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- The Mason
- The Mason neede bricks, to build his famous wall. He took my blue-eyed uncle, who stood so proud and tall. He turned him green and gave him death, and forced the muck and mire, He laid each brick, where he saw fit, regarding nones desire. Some he laid together, others laid alone, Some were large, some were small, all of blood and bone. Every time the mason's bricks were level, straight, and square, The wimds would shift and blow the bricks high into the air!! Shattered broken pieces, would …
Read More - Americans Unite
- Sgt. Grit, Several months before I came home from S. Vietnam, I sat down one day to relax for a while and ended up writing a poem. It was a short and very insignificant poem to most people, but to my friends and me it meant a lot. Maybe I wrote it because I believed in America and the good things we stood for in this world. Maybe I wrote it because we in ‘Nam at the time were sick and tired hearing about the jackasses back home, …
Read More - Bin Laden’s Goodbye
- "For the men and women who have served, For the innocent blood that was shed, For all who never lost their nerve, For the living and the dead. Today has marked a victory, For Americans both home and away, For the last ten years of misery, Ends with Bin Laden's body in decay. We told Al Qaeda that we would not quit, Until we killed them all. That 9/11 we would never forget, And many answered the call. So it took ten years to bring to an …
Read More - At Last - Poem of Return
- At Last Julia Holewinski Anticipation is mounting, and the soldiers are all counting, on those smiling faces of families to be there. AT LAST! Hard to wait, as they become late, but they all see land, and they cheer. AT LAST! The waves move aside and splash against the boat, and their families, they see, are cheering as they smile and not think to gloat, about the war, they are dancing with happiness. AT LAST! On land they look and see, the many uniforms and faces with glee, the war …
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