Names I Recall

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Viet Nam Pieces

Names I Recall; many years ago
I saw them fall, saw young souls go :
the Youth who served their God, to heaven;
or atheists' sons sacrificially given.
Or cross, or magen, or crescent show

on Liberty 's beaches staked banners glow.
"I'll Give!" each answered, when asked: "Who'll go?"
We hallow and remember those monuments, 'graven:
Names I Recall.

We died but as one single Death;
now Mourning sobs the same tear, same breath.
Never-ending Hope reigns in our one heart:
far from battles, Reunion , ne'er to part.
" For Freedom " the list will longer grow :
Names I Recall.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

From what I saw and heard, and from where I stood. I survived; why?

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