For Which It Stands

Poem "For The Troops"

For The Troops
By: Jeanette

IF YOU CALL THE ARMED FORCES

YOUR HOME

IF AT TIMES YOU FEEL ALONE

REMEMBER THERE ARE PEOPLE

BACK AT HOME,

WHO ARE PROUD TO CALL YOU

ONE OF OUR OWN

IT IS NOBLE TO SERVE OUR COUNTRY;

YOU GIVE US A FEELING OF SECURITY.

EVEN THOUGH WE MAY NOT KNOW YOUR FACE,

IN OUR HEARTS THERE IS A PLACE,

FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO PUT  THEIR

LIVES ON THE LINE,

 YOU ARE THOUGHT OF DURING THIS TIME.

OUR COUNTRY IS NOT JUST A PIECE OF LAND;

IT IS WHAT IT IS BECAUSE OF THE

BELIEFS ON WHICH WE STAND,

THAT WE ARE ONE TOGETHER

IN A FREE LAND.

WHEN YOU ARE IN YOUR BUNKER

AND WEARY FROM THE FIGHT,

CLOSE YOUR EYES AND LET YOUR

THOUGHTS TAKE YOU HOME.

ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU ARE PART OF ONE

AND ARE NEVER ALONE.

By: J.T.

Jeanette is such a patriot that she made this poem into a business card size, had them laminated and sent five hundred to our soldiers in Iraq through the U.S.O.

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