[AMC-list] Friends to be Remembered

["Bruce Hevner" <scramblr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From a good friend of mine, a Viet Nam era Marine Vet,,,, many put their
lives on the line and did not return so that we may enjoy it.

Bruce Hevner DC2

US Navy 70-74

 

 

 

I know I have sent this before, but I send it every Memorial weekend. We
must never forget all of those who made the ultimate sacrifice so we, and
others throughout the world, can be free. From the American revolution to
the current day war on terror, young men have gone into battle to fight for
freedom. Let us lift up to our Maker, the souls of those who did not return.


  

US Marine Lives Here

In God We Trust

All Others I Watch Closely 

Ken Elliott

 

Friends To Be Remembered

 

I've got some friends to be remembered

Their names are etched upon a wall

They are there because they answered

Their country's duty call

Young lives that stay forever

As if in their natural prime

They'll stand always in my memory

Frozen in a place and time

 

There was John from Mississippi

And old Roy from Arkansas

Mike from New York City 

And Bob hailed from near St. Paul

Each and every one of them 

Believed their country right

They went to a foreign land

To take up freedom's fight

There they fought for others

And there they lay and died

Ever true and ever brave

With all their heart they tried   

 

I've got some friends to be remembered

Their names are etched upon a wall

They are there because they answered

Their country's duty call

Young lives that stay forever

As if in their natural prime

They'll stand always in my memory

Frozen in a place and time

 

 

You know Jeff he came from Oregon 

And Pierre the woods of Maine

Rob he lived in Ohio

And Zeb the Kansas plains

It mattered not from whence they came

Brothers all it seems

Fighting side by side 

These young men we call Marines

There they fought for others

And there they lay and died

Ever true and ever brave

With all their heart they tried   

 

I've got some friends to be remembered

Their names are etched upon a wall

They are there because they answered

Their country's duty call

Young lives that stay forever

As if in their natural prime

They'll stand always in my memory

Frozen in a place and time

 

You know these men, so young, so brave

For love of country, all they gave

For freedom's right, they took a stand 

And shed their blood in a foreign land 

My heart is filled with bursting pride

To know they fought there by my side

I know not why my name's not there

But for them all I truly care

I've got friends to be remembered 

Their names are etched upon a wall

More than fifty thousand 

Written on that cold black wall

Bless them all, bless them all

God bless them all

 

Ken Elliott 

SGT. USMC 1963-1967

 

 

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