The
red, the white and starless blue
did
fly at half staff all that day.
Around
the town the flags furled true
that
Saturday morn in early May.
I
wondered who had passed away
and
did not hear the news ‘til late.
Did
terrorists strike us this day?
Did
tragedy become our fate?
That
evening on a train from town,
the
speaker on the P.A. said,
“At 8
p.m. we will shut down
to
pause and pray for wartime dead.”
I
blessed myself and bowed my head
and
said a prayer for troops who died
in
World War Two and those who led
our
cause on whom we all relied.
It was
a wondrous sight to see
all
Holland standing still in time
for
those who fought for liberty
and
gave their lives that I’d have mine.
T.
C. Murray
5/4/02
– Remembrance Day in Holland
From
The Spirit of ‘69
by T.
C. Murray
Copyright
2003 by Thomas C. Murray
Reprinted
herein with the author's permission.
