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Aug 2013
What is one death out of Fifty eight thousand?
One house full of weeping in a divided land?
Examine, minutely, the loss of one solider,
one single example of so many last stands.
His sisters hair, now streaked with grey,
She lights a candle in a church
in memory of that fatal day
when her brother's airplane fell to earth.
Freedom's sacrifice paid in blood
by lance Corporal Ronald Powell.
It was an August day like this,
but far away and long ago.

Remember.
Lance Corporal Ronald L. Powell died in Vietnam on 08/24/65
John F McCullagh
Written by
John F McCullagh  63/M/NY
(63/M/NY)   
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