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stephanie
01-14-2007, 06:13 AM
Poem from fallen soldier honors the brave
Monday, October 9, 2006
By JAN H. KENNEDY

PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE Three members of Blue Star Mothers of America (left to right) Kris Dervin of North Canton, Rebecca Leatherwood of Canton and Jayne White of Hartville, take part in a memorial service Sunday dedicating a monument honoring all veterans at Westbrook Veterans Memorial Park.




EULOGY OF THE COMMON SOLDIER

All mortal beings, which God brought forth, die the same

Man is not exempt

All will inevitably end as the dust from whence we came

It matters not of age

Do not mourn me if I should fall in a foreign land

Think this of my passing

In a far-off field a finer soil mixed with the foreign sand

A dust that is American


A dust that laughed, cried, and loved as an American

On this plot there shall be

A little piece of America, a patch for the free man

Which no oppressor can take

From this soil grows grass shimmering a little greener

Brilliant emerald ramparts

A Breeze whisping White Poppies with scent a little sweeter

Flowers towards heaven

Mourn not my terrible death but celebrate my cause in life

Viewed noble or not

I would have sacrificed and gave all that I had to give

Not to make man good

But only to let the good man live.


— Aaron Seesan

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