Belgarion
10-13-2001, 01:40
This poem is a fitting tribute to those heroes we lost on 9/11...I first read it many years ago as it was the end credits to the movie "Hamburger Hill."
Belgarion
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If you are able, save for them a place inside of you
and save one backward glance when you are leaving
for the places they can no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say you loved them,
though you may or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes you left behind.
by Major Michael O'Donnel, USMC -Dak To, Vietnam 1967(?)
Belgarion
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If you are able, save for them a place inside of you
and save one backward glance when you are leaving
for the places they can no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say you loved them,
though you may or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes you left behind.
by Major Michael O'Donnel, USMC -Dak To, Vietnam 1967(?)