Remember them, for they were once like you, <br />With hopes, emotions, days of grey and blue. <br />Accepting combat, trying to win through, <br />To fight again, for freedom. <br /> <br />Remember them, for they were young and green, <br />With so much life ahead, as yet unseen. <br />They knew not what they faced, but all were keen, <br />To fight again, for freedom. <br /> <br />Remember them, each fought to give us peace, <br />That each fierce conflict in this world, would cease. <br />And then when all was done, they’d find release, <br />From fighting foes, for freedom. <br /> <br />Remember them, who’ve joined the heroes roll, <br />Their names inscribed now, on a parchment scroll. <br />Thousands did not survive the war’s hellhole, <br />To fight again, for freedom. <br /> <br />Remember them. <br /> <br /> <br />© Ernestine Northover<br /><br />Ernestine Northover<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-freedom-2/
