I will ask your indulgence for a brief bit of verse.
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Arlington
Those seried rows of solemn white sentinels
Stand in a final formation
Giving mute testimony
to the debt we owe
To the uncountable, the unknown
Men and Women
Some high ranked
some poor privates
some exalted, some quiet
All Soldiers
some brave, all frightened, save the few
at that which fell upon them, and with them
most always untimely
who unselfishly laid the building blocks
of our Great Republic
they give quiet testimony
we have been long here
and longer still, we remain
as silent guides
to the continued Freedom
of you.
Schrijver
2009
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