by Larry McNerney

Created on: July 12, 2010   Last Updated: July 14, 2010

Happy Veterans' Day.

We also serve who stand and wait. Our fate is not to be known as great.

 You went off to war, and we had your back.  When you returned you got your job back.  

 Your fate was to live, and kill and try to get up and take that hill.

Sometimes you fell and in that falling you showed us the price

 of living in the land of the free and yours was the home of the brave.

  We also serve and applaud as you walk by in the parade. 

 The parade of wounded heroes, wounded by time and tide.

  Your day of greatness is past, and as you walk passed us

 we place our hands over our hearts, because that is where you dwell now.

Your life was brief upon the battlefield, and yet many of you keep the pain for years.

  Remembering your friend who fell and you march on carrying him with you until you also die.

   We also serve who stand and wait. We stand as you walk by.  Your sons and your daughters waited your return.

    I stand and salute as you walked past today. Thank you, is all I can say.

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