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Going to the Gone

A checklist for Memorial Day.

by Greg Asimakoupoulos
May 23, 2008

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Going to the Gone
Going to the Gone_Greg Asimakoupoulos-A checklist for Memorial DayGo look in on your children still asleep
within their bed.
Remind yourself they're safe and warm
because of some long dead.

Go for a walk through cemeteries
lined with little flags.
Take time to ponder homebound heroes
flown in body bags.

Go stand between those granite stones
engraved with names and dates.
Imagine all who died defending
our United States.

Go on and kneel beside a marker
offering a prayer
with gratitude for those who gave their lives
defeating terror.

Go home and count your blessings
from the hands of those now gone.
Then vow to the Almighty that their
mem'ry will live on.

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Evelyn from Amsterdam writes:
May 24, 2009
I walked this week through a cemetery looking for an uncle's grave marker to place flowers. It was truly a blessing to see how many flags were there (placed by the veterans org I believe.) God bless these families.

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