Veteran's Day Lament! Poem by David Whalen

1376... sounds like some historical date
Required to be memorized in high school history class

Well it’s not. it’s a much, much more important number
And we cannot let it pass.

It’s the number of our young boys in Afghanistan
Who have died all alone

It’s the number of young boys
Who will never come home

They died for a people who will never care
They died hoping to accomplish something

We should have kept them home I know
For their gallant deaths will accomplish nothing

1376.…sounds like some random numbers and
To our leaders I suppose they are

To me it’s young lives, gone forever
In a stupid and senseless war.

Speak up! ! ! Bring them home, Keep them home
This madness has gone too far! !