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Faye Sizemore
Presented February 7, 2003 and February 20, 2003
Call To Arms

Eternal soldier, arise,
Harken to the battle cries.
Years ago, dead and gone,
seems rest has not been long.
Come now and stand, hear the cry,
'Today again, your brothers may die...'

"I answer, I come, brothers mine,
Returning through the mists,
from an endless journey in time
Part of me, timeless, still exists,
this ever faithful soul of mine..."

© Faye Sizemore
February 6, 2003

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      In The Shade Of Orange

          
In the Sixties,our troops were sent to a foreign land.
           My brothers and I went off with a wave of our hand.
                We were all vowing to be the defending band,
                the protectors making a great freedom stand.

                 It became a long ,drawn hideous  war game,
                 the one needing defending having my name.
                     Thinking the cards had been stacked,
                       for vigilence, not one of us lacked.

                   What we were fighting for, you must see,
                  were the very lives of my brothers and me.
               Yes,we went to Nam, and took a mighty stand,
                poured our brothers blood into a foreign land.

                        Searching through leafless jungles,
                       Hearing  in the distance the rumbles
                         Of those unseen overhead planes
                           that sprayed the chemical rains.

                         Through the hills and rice paddies
                            and the blazing napalmed trees
                           ah,interesting what hindsight sees,
                             and it sure does not please me!

                     Home ,decades later, that`s where we be,
                    still watching out for my brothers ,plus me,
                   just fighting to survive in this land of the free.
                   gonna live forever... if Agent Orange lets me.

                  ©Faye Sizemore
                      February 19, 2003
                    
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