Freedom Isn't Free
I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze
A young soldier saluted it,
and then He stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud
With hair cut square and eyes
alert He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many Pilots' planes shot down?
How many foxholes were soldiers'graves?
No Freedom isn't free
I heard the sound of taps one
night, When everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That taps had meant "Amen"
When a flag had draped a coffin
of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard at
the bottom of the sea Of unmarked
graves in Arlington.....
No -- Freedom isn't free!!
~ Cadet Major Kelly Strong ~
Air Force Junior ROTC
God bless all of our Men & Women
who proudly serve their country
to protect our freedom !!
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