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11-21-2006, 09:44 PM | #1 |
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A Military Christmas
My mom sent me this..
>The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, >I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight. >My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, >My daughter beside me, angelic in rest. >Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white, >Transforming the yard to a winter delight. >The sparkling lights in the tree I believe, >Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve. >My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep, >Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep. >In perfect contentment, or so it would seem, >So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream. > >The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near, >But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear. >Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, >Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow. >My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear, >And I crept to the door just to see who was near. >Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night, >A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight. > >A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old, >Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold. >Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled, >Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child. >"What are you doing?" I asked without fear, >"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here! >Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve, >You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!" > >For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift, >Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts.. >To the window that danced with a warm fire's light >Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right, >I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night." >"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line, >That separates you from the darkest of times. >No one had to ask or beg or implore me, >I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me. >My Gramps died at Pearl on a day in December," >Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas Gram always remembers." >My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam', >And now it is my turn and so, here I am. >I've not seen my own son in more than a while, >But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile. > >Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag, >The red, white, and blue... an American flag. >I can live through the cold and the being alone, >Away from my family, my house and my home. >I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet, >I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat. >I can carry the weight of killing another, >Or lay down my life with my sister and brother.. >Who stand at the front against any and all, >To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall." > >"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright, >Your family is waiting and I'll be all right." >"But isn't there something I can do, at the least, >"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast? >It seems all too little for all that you've done, >For being away from your wife and your son." >Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret, >"Just tell us you love us, and never forget. >To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone, >To stand your own watch, no matter how long. >For when we come home, either standing or dead, >To know you remember we fought and we bled. >Is payment enough, and with that we will trust, >That we mattered to you as you mattered to us." Alls i can say is AMEN! Ive been there..
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11-21-2006, 09:54 PM | #2 | |
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Re: A Military Christmas
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11-21-2006, 10:39 PM | #3 |
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Re: A Military Christmas
Very well done, thanks for posting that.:ORANGE:
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11-22-2006, 07:08 AM | #4 |
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Re: A Military Christmas
Awesome!
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11-22-2006, 08:54 AM | #5 |
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Re: A Military Christmas
Wonderful!
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11-22-2006, 08:59 AM | #6 |
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Re: A Military Christmas
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11-22-2006, 09:30 AM | #7 |
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Re: A Military Christmas
Thank you men and women serving............Semper Fi
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11-22-2006, 09:55 AM | #8 |
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Re: A Military Christmas
AWESOME
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