Happy Memorial Day

May 31, 2016

"Happy Memorial Day!" cheers abound

While blood flooded streets pay for salvation

We drink, we eat, with bodies in the ground.

"Come Save Big Bucks!" stores seduce the nation

We laugh, we talk of how grateful we are

22 die at home to escape regrets.

We "don't see" the soldier laden with scars

"We honor the fallen, Bless the US!"

"Some give their lives" we say at the buffet

The age of those gone is too appalling.

Mothers weep, their child's future was torn away

We envision old men, heroes falling

So drink, pervert the day we should respect

Eat, ignorant of the cost to protect.

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