I got to the Wall for the first time this past Veteran's Day. What an experience! I wish I could have stayed longer.

CeCe


Veteran's Day 1999

The guys were all there,
sharing their stories of the war...
Knowing the units they had served
by the patches and names they wore.

SeaBees and 101st Airborne,
1st Cav and the Rangers...
Stories different, yet the same...
brought together...no longer strangers.

Gazing silently into black granite,
focusing on a familiar name...
Eyes clouding with their memories...
remembering the reason why they came.

They come to honor those who died...
to remember the friends they lost.
To allow the healing of their souls...
Damn! They paid such a high cost!

It hurts to look into their eyes...
to see their pain as they recall
another place at another time...
long before there was a Wall.

CeCe


Copyright © November 1999 by Cecilia Upson Covera, All Rights Reserved


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