From the colonies to Desert Storm,
serving in countless wars,
our lives have been given for you,
so the world we love would survive
free of tyranny and oppression.
Last breaths have been laid down
so the free and the brave,
will not die in vain.
Endured agonies for peace,
have to be preserved in order
for us to rest eternal.
Hands of honor must be extended
out of friendship and respect,
so chances of survival will be great.
Our children's children deserve
opportunities to taste freedom,
but while dying of natural causes.
We need not expose young flesh
to the carnage of war.
The cause of freedom is priceless
human life is irreplaceable,
as is the planet on which we are buried.
Let our deaths not be in vain,
peace through reasoning
should be preferred path chosen.
Let us try to avoid
creating new tombs of the unknown. . .
Timothy Michael Divito c1996
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