To my Father who Honored this Day with Fervor
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Soaked in the Loss of 8 Million
Dead, Wasted and Mutilated
You Grew
Honoring them Religiously
Every November
the Sound of church Bells
Bugles
A Command to Memory
year after year
the struggle for freedom
its Maintenance
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Vigilantly you moved ahead
Marked with the Impermanence
of your generation
it was shock
not surprise
When It Happened All Over Again
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You engaged yourself
as you knew They had,
the Millions who Fought
for your Freedom,
you Honored them
by never giving up
and Fighting for Ours
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Thanks for sharing, Kiki. It’s easy to lose track of the day. Our culture has developed such an oddly off-kilter parallex when it comes to Veterans-especially through the lens of our current (repressed [?] Asymmetrical) conflicts. Anyway, thanks for the heartfelt-
So true!Thank you Jacob!
Thank you so much for this Kiki! I too Thank your father and mine for their contribution to the world. It has literally brought us both to where we are at this moment. Veterans must be heard and acknowledged. The more we listen, the more we become aware of the horrors of war. I listened and I do not forget. Continue to share your voice with the world-I hear you!
You are right Christina, and our fathers have brought you and me together, I thank them for that!
A wonderful tribute to those who fought that we might live and to your father too, Keren. I live in a country where people have forgotten the true significance of the poppy and use it to browbeat others…lest we forget….
Dearest Andrea, the forgetting is everywhere, we move forward so fast and somehow so inevitably… thank you for the strength of your remembrance and the appreciation you give mine! Lets keep remembering together.xo
Tres, tres beau, ma Kiki. Il serait bien ému le Gaby et surtout tres fier de toi!
Merci ma Michèle
Beautiful and moving commemoration Kiki xoxo
This poem about your father is so moving Kiki… but sadly humans, politicians and weapon sellers seem to forget the horrors of war! A peaceful world seems so far away!
Dear Karim, I believe freedom is something we will always have to fight for, one way or another; some things are never won for good, rather need to be won again and again. Humans get lazy and greedy…it is also our condition! Hélas!