We remember our fathers <br />They remember their sons <br />Who fought long battles <br />And paid with their lives <br /> <br />We remember the glories <br />We have forgotten the pain, , <br />of the widows and orphans, <br />of those who will never return again. <br /> <br />We remember the machinery <br />With which battles were fought <br />But the names of the fallen <br />Are all but forgot. <br /> <br />We remember, we say <br />With the crimson petalled poppy <br />And silence at eleven <br />On Remembrance Day <br /> <br />But of all the boys and men <br />Who fought wars large and small <br />Paying dearly with their lives <br />Do we really remember them, at all? <br /> <br />9 Nov 1986<br /><br />David Harris<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/do-we-remember-them/
