Today is National Former Prisoner of War Day.
One of our favorite contributors is what could basically be called the Poet Laureate of vets and POWs and MIAS... Del Abe Jones. He has written extensively on POWs, MIAs, Vets, Patriotism and other salient topics. So, here's some of Del's Poems for the day -
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our
freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
-- President Abraham Lincoln --
Ê POW/MIA STORIES
It's hard to find, the stories
That, they won't talk about
It's hard, to realize the things
That they had to do without.
How can they let the feelings
(Even, they don't understand)
Show to, any other people
In this, Freedom's Land.
We can't know the hardships
Unless we were there
Especially, when they came back home
To those who didn't seem to care.
Unless you had, lived through it
Watching, Comrades that had died
Why should they, talk about it to us
Of the tears inside, they've cried?
Even if they chose to tell us
What difference, would it make
Would it be worth the chance
That they, would have to take.
Why should they bare their soul
That's already been, stripped, clean
Because, even with, a picture of it
We couldn't see, what they have seen.
Sometimes, all we have to do
Is, to look into their eyes
And think that we might see or hear
Their, mournful, pain-filled cries.
That POW who came home
Who lived, through that Hell
Can't tell the stories, of the MIA
WhoÊ never had, a chance to tell!
So, we may never, ever, know
Of, the horrors, they have, known
And, if we think about it
It's probably best, that they aren't shown!
But there is, always an end
To every, never-ending story
AlthoughÊ sometimes, they're never told
In, all their Truth and Glory.
So if you ask about it
And if you ever wonder why
They won't talk of that nightmare
Maybe now, you might know, Why?
POW/MIA
So manyÊ fates are left unknown
And so many rumors that abound
So many families ask the question
ÒWhen will, the answers be found?Ó
So many years have come and gone
Sometimes, hope is hard to keep
There's some who feel there's none
And in some, it's buried deep.
The pain, is in not knowing
How, to put loved ones' to rest
When there is no way to prove
They have passed, the final test.
But, no matter what the answers
We can't let this cause alone
Until, each and every one of them
Is found, and brought back home.
POW/MIA
For as long as we have Wars
And we send our Young to fight
We'll have Those who are Missing
And the POWs plight.
All People of this Nation
Have this Duty to fulfill.
We must keep Them in our thoughts
And, We must have the Will
To bring every One home
And do all we can to find
All those POW/MIAs
And leave NO Souls behind.
©CopyrightÊ by Del "Abe" JonesÊ