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My hero isn't in comics
My hero doesn't have a show on t.v
I don't see my hero anymore
My hero was a U.S soldier
He fought for me, my friends, and our country
He was shot in the heart
The same heart that loved his country so much he gave his life for it
Even though he may be gone
Even though no one can see him anymore
Even though he rests 10 feet under ground
Beneath a soldier's memorial stone
He is still with his men
Beside them watching over them
So no family has to go through the same grieving process
He may be gone in the flesh but not in my heart
He is still my soldier
He is still my hero

A Soldiers Promise

As a man plays with his daughter he gets the call
The man sits quietly on the phone as he listens to his future,
His daughter grabs his hand and asks him if somethings wrong
He quietly watches and then says,
"Nothing sweetheart I promise I will be alright."

A few years later the girl is all grown up
Daddy is still gone to war,
The girl's father calls one night
They talk for hours and hours then he whispers something to her and leaves,
The girl watches her friends and their dads
She quietly whispers her dads words,
"I promise I'll be home soon and safe."

A few days later the man's daughter receives a call
As she drops the phone c

My Soldier

I am loneliness and a soldier's niece
I wonder about the future and it's surprises
I hear the crying of soldiers that have died fighting for their country
I see depression that consumes the soldier's family
I want the death of war to stop and my soldier to come home
I am loneliness and a soldier's niece

I pretend my soldier is back home with me protecting me from home
I feel the cold wind on my skin as I sit on the porch waiting
I touch the clothes to my face as i remember his presence
I worry about my soldier not coming home one day
I cry when being strong is too hard to do anymore
I am loneliness and a soldier's niece

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A Soldiers Memorial

by ~lifizzell, Jun 19, 2012, 10:15:15 AM
Literature / Poetry / Emotional / Free Verse

People watch the soldiers carrying the coffin
They watch and stare at the big brown box
Carrying a son, a husband, a father, and a soldier
The mother and father watch thinking
"Why are we burying our son when it should be the other way around?",
The wife watches as she cries thinking to herself
"I don't want the words till death do we part to come true.",
His daughter stands there holding her mothers hand crying asking her mom
"Where's daddy mommy why isn't he waking up and why are those men carrying his box?",
His fellow soldiers look at the box watching it move down the row of people
They all think back to when he was shot and all say to themselves
"Why couldn't I have saved him he didn't deserve this, he didn't deserve to be carried off the battle field raw and breathless?",
The soldiers shoot off their guns in memory of
A son, a husband, a father, and a soldier...

A Soldiers Memorialby ~lifizzell

Literature / Poetry / Emotional / Free Verse

Another poem about my uncle... but not from my point of view I did a soldier’s family instead.

Critique by ~wolf891 Jun 19, 2012, 10:48:24 AM

nice job in honoring the soldiers who served and fallen in the armed forces to serve our country making us proud to be an american making our future bright and honor our loved one who died in the forces becoming a better person the soldiers in war fight and do things lest expected all i know that you will make your life better if you play your cards right the soldiers are trained to know their enemies and use strategies to get their objectives done i done have family members who served in the forces i'm thinking about joining as well

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