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You’re off again there bro,
To train for the Corps,
The last I saw of you,
Was from the closing of a Door.
Becoming one of the Few,
As you train there all day long,
As you sit there and read this,
Just be glad I’m not singing a song.
They’ll teach you how to Fight,
And even how to kill,
But your absence from home,
Is a hole that no one can fill.
Hidden Heroes
I almost missed him.
He was hidden in humility,
an unobtrusive old man,
handing out sale papers.
Standing off to the side,
just inside the entrance,
corralling wayward shopping carts,
supplementing his survival.
I noticed his hat,
the one with all the buttons
and concealed in the clutter,
the eagle, globe and anchor.
Here is a poem that I wrote when I was in the DEP myself. It means more to me now than it ever did.
By: Lisa Spencer, proud wife of Cpl Jason Spencer Wpns Co 3/25 loving mother of Sydney,9, Dylan,6, and Dakota,2 praying until he comes home safe
It’s a crazy world we live in
Surrounded by cruelty and strife
We all need heros to belive in
Role models who live a good life
I sit in my shiny new office at my beautiful new desk and I want to scream
I want to scream so loud that everyone within a hundred miles hears the tearing of my vocal cords
I want to slam my fist into the walls of that shiny office again and again until my blood mixes with the crumbling plaster
Father's Day
This past Father's Day I figured would be like any other. But my nineteen year old daughter surprised me to no end when she included the following in my Father's Day card. This was read at the funeral of a Marine killed in Iraq. I do not know who wrote it, but as a Vietnam vet I must say it is one of the very few times she saw me with sand in my eyes. All I can say is read it. I think the message will speak to all who reads it.
TITLE: Untitled: For My Marine
THE STORY: My best friend is a LCPL in the USMC. He means the world to me, probably more than he will ever know. And one day he called me and told me that he found out that he’d be going overseas, probably around the beginning of next year. We talked for a while and then he had to get back to work. And I was left to decipher my thoughts, which were going about a mile a minute! I was sitting in a restaurant and I didn’t have any paper. So I grabbed an extra napkin and the sharpie marker out of my purse. And I sat there and wrote this poem for him. I didn’t really give it a title, so I just called it “Untitled: For My Marine”… And I was hoping I could post it on your site. Please let me know either way!
As I head for this battle,
I know I’ll have to fight,
But God please, please protect me,
Each day and every night.
We know that they are terrorist,
And what they believe is wrong,
So why are there people,
Who think we don’t belong?
In my heart I hate no man,
Nor I curse him ‘neath my breath,
But every time I fire my gun,
It will always mean life or death.
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Find a few more poems on our Patriotic Pages
To every Soldier, Sailor, Warrior and Marine,
Your country called and you arrived on the scene!
It could be Bagram, Fallujah, Baghdad or Tikrit,
Fighting the sand, the grit and my God, the heat!
Doing the toughest of jobs that has to be done,
And toiling each day in the Middle Eastern sun!