Show of Unity
On the stage in Normandy,
the surviving soldiers who kept moving forward
through the water, up the cliffs at Omaha Beach.
A 97-year old veteran parachutes
to applause onto a field of wildflowers,
not darkness and bullet fire.
Pledges of gratitude and alliance.
Easy abstractions to decorate the day.
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Beautiful poem. I wish the news media would share this one!
I think they were, indeed, the greatest generation.