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Thunder!!!

Rolling Thunder!!!!

Far- and near-thunder!

The earth shakes! Belly aches!

Heart-friends, Bloodied-Brothers: GONE!

All   gone   to   inhabit   sweet   valleys

and the soft meadows of Peace in Death.

But,  at  last  you  all do possess that peace

for which all free men have always so much yearned.

You've  bought it for us!

It's YOUR “Peace Price!”

So  Noble

a price!

OH!,

Brothers!

We   honor

your sacrifice,

commemoration,

life's Holiest Donation!

And we gaze upon the vast sea,

where we fought, and the immense skies,

or  the  forgiving  earth, where we warred,

---even  as  we, Sailors, Airmen, Soldiers,  Warriors

( silent, shrieking, cursing, praying );

praying that these last

sacrifices

enlighten

others:

TO PEACE !  !  !



CODA:  "Taps" : :

We pray for them

   to treat all men

      just as they want to be, if they were them:

              Leave us Freedom of Man;

             Leave us Liberty and Peace;

            Leave us God’s Righteousness;

                  NO

                       MORE  

                              WAR ! !





C trexx 1969