Haiku
Sequence
Arlington
National Cemetery Veteran’s Day November 11, 2010
flow on
Potomac
past these silent green hills—
remember these dead
Tomb of the Unknowns—
a wreath for nameless faces
and unending grief
Veteran’s Day—
a twenty-one gun salute
rings over the graves
proudly wearing
The Armed Forces Uniform—
changing the guard
paying the price—
some come home in a flag draped
coffin
he stands watch
as they lower her casket—
can he be as brave?
wreathes and flags
watch over these graves—
let All remain free
Arlington National
Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, is a military cemetery
in the United States of America, established during the American
Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate
of the family of Confederate general Robert E. Lee's wife
MaryAnna (Custis) Lee, a great grand- daughter of Martha
Washington. The cemetery is situated directly across the Potomac
River from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and near
The Pentagon. In an area of 624 acres (2.53 km2), veterans and
military casualties from each of the nation's wars are interred
in the cemetery, ranging from the American Civil War through to
the military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pre-Civil War dead
were reinterred after 1900.
~Source: “Arlington National Cemetery” from Wikipedia
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