Memorial Day 2020

There was a knock on the door 'round two o'clock

Two uniforms and her heart stopped

Yellow ribbon 'round an oak tree

Blowing in the breeze

Here's to the ones that didn't make it back home

The ones we ain't seen in so long

The hold up a beer ones, the wish they were here ones

The not forgotten but gone

 • The Ones That Didn't Make it Back Home

Your baby would just about be here

And your very last tour would be up

But you won't be back, they're all dressin' in black

Drinkin' sweet tea in Styrofoam cups

Mamas and grand mamas love you

American boys hate to lose

Nobody here could forget you

You showed us what we had to lose

You never planned on the bombs in the sand

Or sleepin' in your dress blues

• Dress Blues

We searched all day

To find out where my granddad lay

When we finally found that cross

He said, "Son this is what it costs

To keep us free"

They folded up a flag and told my mom and dad

We're proud of your son

And every time I hear twenty-one guns

I know they brought another hero home to us

• Arlington

The second soldier we never got to see

An army band was playing

By a long black limousine

Two soldiers coming home

Returning to their families

They've been away from the so long

There's gonna to be some flags waving

And some tear stained faces

Oh, the journeys over for two soldiers

Coming home

• Two Soldiers Coming Home

He found him a girl

Made her his queen

And he fought for his country

And he gave it everything

• The Dash

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:13

(Psst... In honor of Memorial Day, my novel Freedom is free today on Kindle. Or, if you're in the mood for something shorter, a short story I wrote a few years ago with a Memorial Day vibe can be found here.) 

we will always remember <3