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  1. 41. My Marine

    • By Marcia Willette
    • Published by Family Friend Poems August 2014 with permission of the Author.

    My Marine so far from home.
    Over seas, but not alone.
    I hold you close in my thoughts and prayers.
    Missing you through all my tears.

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  3. 42. Battle Cry

    • By Ethan Patterson
    • Published by Family Friend Poems March 2018 with permission of the Author.

    Running through the battlefield, bracing for the bang.
    Cannons fire near me, metal swords go clang.

    Everyone I know and love could flash before my eyes.

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  5. 43. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

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    I know that I shall meet my fate
    Somewhere among the clouds above;
    Those that I fight I do not hate,
    Those that I guard I do not love;

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  6. 44. There Will Come Soft Rains (War Time)

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    There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
    And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

    And frogs in the pools singing at night,

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  7. 45. Military

    • By Kelsey Lane
    • Published by Family Friend Poems November 2016 with permission of the Author.

    I don't want him to go.
    I don't want him to leave.
    What can I do?
    All I do is plead.

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  8. 46. Finding Peace

    • By John Baumgartner
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2016 with permission of the Author.

    Turmoil covers my eyes and my heart.
    It never leaves me in day or dark.
    Combat changed me to this way.
    Hate and death seem to be with me to stay.

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  9. 47. The Star-Spangled Banner

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    • By Francis Scott Key

    O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
    What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
    Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
    O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?

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  10. 48. To The War Returning

    • By May Fenn
    • Published by Family Friend Poems December 2018 with permission of the Author.

    How blue are the eyes of my darling
    And warm are her lips ruby red.
    How white are her arms of enchantment
    That beckon me into her bed.

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  11. 49. The Man He Killed

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    Had he and I but met
    By some old ancient inn,
    We should have set us down to wet
    Right many a nipperkin!

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  12. 50. Listen

    • By Moshe Sonnheim
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2020 with permission of the Author.

    Listen

    Listen to the distant drums.
    Listen to the bugles calls.

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  13. 51. Beat! Beat! Drums!

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    Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
    Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force,
    Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation,
    Into the school where the scholar is studying,

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  14. 52. Lest We Forget

    • By Iola J Zaan
    • Published by Family Friend Poems November 15, 2023 with permission of the Author.

    On barren land on western field
    Where only sadness war can yield
    On battle sites where none had grown
    In fact the bravest seeds were sewn

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