Losses 

Blackened walls in broad daylight

Capturing sounds of long ago

Fields shielded from our sight

Roles in which we will never know

Names etched for all time

Families losses they do show

Shadows of a former mind

In silence the cancer grows

Freedom gained is freedom lost

The path of war is never true

One does pay such a cost

In those that we never knew

Schemers scheme and money is made

They sacrifice so little

To maintain their life

In a world soldiers rarely know

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by Bill Ferguson

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