Always Remember

Oh she looks
but there's nothing to see.
Still she looks
saying come back for me...

waiting

The Death of a Soldier - Wallace Stevens

Life contracts and death is expected,
As in season of autumn.
The soldier falls.

He does not become a three-days personage.
Imposing his separation,
Calling for pomp.

Death is absolute and without memorial,
As in a season of autumn,
When the wind stops,

When the wind stops and, over the heavens,
The clouds go, nevertheless,
In their direction. 

never forgotten 

There are so "many ways to remember"- Click here for a suggestion filled blogpost of the same  name from the Off The Base. The blog is one arm of a multi-media community-uniting project, which also includes programming on Tampa radio station WUSF 89.7.

Also, CNN honors U.S.casualties from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars this weekend with 100 faces, 100 hours. Click here to visit this online tribute.

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For more Musical Monday contributions or to add your own visit Xmas Dolly today. Above song is Fields of France by Al Stewart. The Youtube video was created by Jonnoms. Drawings are mine. However the Arlington Cemetery photo used in Never Forgotten is from Wikimedia Commons.

(sorry about the weird formatting on this post - blogspot is giving me hiccups today)