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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 201963" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Freedom Is Not Free</span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><em>By LCDR Kelly Strong, USCG - Copyright 1981</em></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">I watched the flag pass by one day,</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">It fluttered in the breeze.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">A young Service man saluted it,</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">And then he stood at ease.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">I looked at him in uniform</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">So young, so tall, so proud,</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">With hair cut square and eyes alert</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">He'd stand out in any crowd.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">I thought how many men like him</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">Had fallen through the years.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">How many died on foreign soil</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">How many mothers' tears?</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">How many pilots' planes shot down?</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">How many died at sea</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">No, freedom isn't free.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">I heard the sound of Taps one night,</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">When everything was still,</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">I listened to the bugler play</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">And felt a sudden chill.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">I wondered just how many times</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">That Taps had meant "Amen,"</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">When a flag had draped a coffin.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">Of a brother or a friend.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">I thought of all the children,</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">Of the mothers and the wives,</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">Of fathers, sons and husbands</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">With interrupted lives.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">I thought about a graveyard</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">At the bottom of the sea</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">Of unmarked graves in Arlington.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px">No, freedom isn't free.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 201963, member: 1246"] [CENTER][B][COLOR=#ff0000]Freedom Is Not Free [/COLOR][/B][SIZE=2][I]By LCDR Kelly Strong, USCG - Copyright 1981[/I][/SIZE] [SIZE=2]I watched the flag pass by one day, It fluttered in the breeze. A young Service man saluted it, And then he stood at ease.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2]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.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2]I thought how many men like him Had fallen through the years. How many died on foreign soil How many mothers' tears?[/SIZE] [SIZE=2]How many pilots' planes shot down? How many died at sea How many foxholes were soldiers' graves? No, freedom isn't free.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2]I heard the sound of Taps one night, When everything was still, I listened to the bugler play And felt a sudden chill.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2]I wondered just how many times That Taps had meant "Amen," When a flag had draped a coffin. Of a brother or a friend.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2]I thought of all the children, Of the mothers and the wives, Of fathers, sons and husbands With interrupted lives.[/SIZE] [SIZE=2]I thought about a graveyard At the bottom of the sea Of unmarked graves in Arlington. No, freedom isn't free.[/SIZE][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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