Here is a poem I wrote and I wish for you to consider. Watching our young Canadian soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan being carried back home on the shoulders of comrades prompted this. You might consider it for the November issue. Armistice Day is November 11th.

A Sergeant's Tears

On TV
A young soldier
Tears rolling down
His rugged face
Heart broken supporting
His comrade
Inside a steel
Coffin

In slow procession
On their shoulders
Another young victim
Of a senseless war

A father, a husband
Viciously cut down
In prime of life
Remains draped under
The Canadian flag

Heart broken
Family and friends
Looks on another Taliban victory
In a foreign land

In the zone
His platoon fights on
Angry, frightened, determined
In deft defiance
As tears stream down
Their Sergeant's face

A final salute
Silent prayer
Bugler's last call
For a peacekeeper
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