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Jackie Sharp Sheflin
9/29/2006 2:34:02 PM | Dad had this peom marked in one of his EX-POW Bulletins:
Jackie
Will You Remember
Will you remember our service people
Will you need their service again
Will you remember their sacrifices
And visit their graves now and then.
Remember when they left their families
Their loved ones and home
Their cards and letters daily
Were good to read alone.
Remember the ones we honor
For those who paid the price
They kept "Old Glory" flying
Not just once but twice.
Remember them on Memorial Day
Place flowers on their grave
They did what they had to do
Let's remember the memorial they made.
Remember America is free and great
Not just for this special day
I would do my time again (POW)
For I want freedom everyday.
written by Warren G. King Sr.
Nashville, TN
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donaldbyers
9/30/2006 2:33:17 AM | I appreciate the pome that you sent in it is in great memory of those that served at that point and time. But it also transinds to other conflicts that we have been involved with. My self was Viet Nam but my Uncle was KIA on his first mission on 24 Aug 1944 to germany on the Weimar mission and I was named after him so that is why I am personaly involved with the 401st BG and will continute to go to the reuions an hope that our generations will continue to support the group. Our next reuinion will be in Washing DC in 2008 so plan ahead and I hope that you are a member.
Don Byers
Lubbock Texas
Sgt. Donald C. Byers, 613th Bomb Squadron, Togglier, 42-97344 Carrie B II, KIA 08/24/1944.
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Jackie Sharp Sheflin
9/30/2006 7:54:56 AM | Don,
I gree with you, the poem applies to all the conflicts that we have ever been in and that is why I posted it first. I will post more as time allows. It is so nice to know that the poem has the same meaning to others that they did to my father. Dad served in WW II, Korea, and Viet Nam.
Jackie
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donaldbyers
10/1/2006 2:46:06 AM | Thanks Jackie,
I was only in Viet Nam but I had uncles in all other wars seems that my mothers side of the family was always involved in one or the other. Not so much on my dad's side of the family but thanks again for the posting.
Don Byers
lubbock Texas
Sgt. Donald C. Byers, 613th Bomb Squadron, Togglier, 42-97344 Carrie B II, KIA 08/24/1944.
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