Fading Warriors * Poem by Carolyn Brunelle

Each day the flame weakens
old soldiers, old liberators
their deeds, our memory of them;
fading candlelight in the winds of time.

Their granite carved glories,
passing into history;
20th Century heroes who handed us
a future they have no home in.



________________________________ by Carolyn Brunelle


*At the start of the year, VA estimated the total current surviving
World War II veterans at 5,032,591. VA projects about 414,000 deaths
among our World War II veterans this year, for a daily rate of about 1,135.