What did you do today for freedom?  

Makes you wonder as you stare

At the lifeless soldier laying there

Lungs filled with sand, clawing ground

Silent, for in death you make no sound

He was prepared to fight this awful day

Made his peace with God in his own way

Armed and ready he charged the beach

Life claimed by the bullet that left the breech

Freedom to him meant more than life

He had a loving child and a wife

He hoped they'd remain free and well

They were in his last thoughts as he fell

What did he do for freedom today?

He gave his life so Old Glory could wave

He sacrificed all upon a foreign shore

It's heroes like these that win the wars

Not Cowards locked behind closed doors...

By Richard Preston