Our Greatest Generation
"This Date Shall Live In Infamy"
Men and boys Rushed to answer the call.
Education put on hold.
Families disrupted, weddings postponed.
By the thousands, boarded trains
To training camps that taught how to kill.
Shipped overseas to places unknown.
stormed beaches, more than a few,
Sand would steal their blood.
Many soared up with fame, then down in flames.
Others sloshing through snow and mud.
Letters from home, news of a birth
Of a son or daughter to grow up
In a home without a father.
We shall not and we dare not forget
Pearl Harbor, Bataan, Anzio, Tarawa,
Midway, Normandy, Iwo Jima,
Battle of the Bulge, to name a few.
Too Many Gave their supreme sacrifice
Upon the altars of freedom.
They saved the world for us to enjoy.
Truly they are our "Greatest Generation."
Don Ouellette