D-DAY

[Your Uncle Sam]

D-DAY

...D-DAY

.........D-DAY

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EISENHOWER

FDR

CHURCHILL

EISENHOWER’S WARNING

REAGAN ........40TH ANNIVERSARY SPEECH AT NORMANDY

NORMANDY

THE CROSSES AT NORMANDY

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In memory of those who made it

to the beach but not beyond...

...IN MEMORIAM

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The dream of the missing Sailor

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We sailed away one ebony night

with nothing to guide us but pale moonlight

through a tundra, north of the valley of then

…on the river they called the 'river of when';

On a boat that was named The Dark Mystery

that never was written in man's history…

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We journeyed through time, in a quest of the Lost

as farther we drifted away from the coast

with whispering wind pressing our sail,

without the dreadful fear of the gale;

…'twards a heading called "somewhenago"

shivering in silence as the trade winds would blow

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As memory faded like mystical clouds

we leaned to the edge, covered in shrouds

scooping up moonbeams with our cupped hands

drinking to dreams of tropical lands

on the edge of quixotic, exotic horizons

shimmering faraway, like distant mirages...

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With our destiny plotted on twinkling stars

we bragged of ladies and thundering wars

and wondered where, in the swirling of time,

the journey would end, and how it would rhyme...

if we wrote of it someday in a song

...when only remembrance comes trailing along

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The Lost Verse...

[Chaplain Thomas Gilbert Cole]

A VETERAN OF VETERANS, FATHER OF VETERANS
A PROUD FAMILY OF VETERANS!