As Veterans Day Approaches, Remember Our Soldiers

As Veterans Day comes around we think of the ones in harms way. But this Veterans Day I think of the friends I left behind in that Foreign Land so far away. So I leave you with these Poems to remember the ones that gave it all for your Freedom today.

A Letter From a Friend & Brother

If the truth be told

I must be getting pretty old

But you know, I'm still pretty bold

Sometimes it feels like yesterday

When I was just a boy

But time ticks on and so do I

For someday I know I to must die

As I sit here looking out my window pane

I dream about those days gone by

The places I've seen and the things I've done

Stuck in my mind and locked away

Sometimes they jump out, like a ghost in the night

They give me cold sweats and give me the shakes

And when I wake up, it was only a dream

About friends from a long time ago

Faces remembered but not forgotten

And then one day after 30 some years

I looked in the mail box and what did I find

A letter from a friend from a long time ago

He said he had a dream of a friend he had almost forgot

And the crazy times we had shared in a place called Vietnam

I called him on the phone and we talked for hours

Of those crazy, crazy days of long ago

It was great talking of those days from the war

Like the time we fought side by side

That was the day he saved my behind

Or those times we spent in those off-limit places

Doing our deeds and having our fun

We shared some stories and shared some laughs

When we were done, we said our goodbyes

Not realizing there would be no more

For you see, my friend has left me now

His heart gave out and he slipped away

So now I must say, goodbye my brother

Until we meet at heavens gate

You will always be remembered

Never Forgotten

(c) Steven E Weathers 2012

               **Lets we never forget * *

                  Veterans Day Remembered

As Veterans Day comes around again

You think of those in harms way

So far away in a foreign land

Will they come home again some day?

As old Veterans, we sit around

We talk of the battles we fought so hard

In a foreign land so far away

We think of the ones we left behind

We see the faces of long lost brothers

We wish they were here to enjoy this day

But all we have are the memories together

So don't look sad if we shed a tear

For we will forever remember  the ones left behind

Their names and faces etched in our minds

The ones left behind in that far away land

So remember our Veterans on this Veterans Day and bring them all back home

(c) Steve Weathers 2013 - aka VietnamVet68