So We Must Remember!

So We Must Remember!

By Jacob Hansen

Memorial Day 2013 

What is this thing that God has blessed?

We call it our nation, our home, and our place of rest.
But what has birthed it, refined it, preserved it?

Or does anything ring true in the Red, White and Blue?

 Today we remember the many gone before

Uncles, Aunts, Great Fathers and Mothers

 Children, parents, sisters and brothers.
But how do we remember the Reddest Blood spilled, 

Or the sacrifice of those who were felled.

Few recall the Pure Price of True Freedom, 

.And fewer today know exactly what has Freed them.

So We Must Remember!

We no longer teach "Honor Thy Father and Mother," 

When it comes to our fellow man we try not to bother.
But it is Honor and Courage that has made this nation great, 

To forget this erases the Blue from under 50 States.

And though the Stars are harder to forget. 

Alaska and Montana sometimes, but surely not the rest.

We forget the Reddest Blood of those before, 

The Purest White Freedom which they bought
And the Bluest Honor and Courage they bore, 

To bring One out of Many they sought,

You might as well fly a flag without the Red,
without the White, and without the Blue.
But then our 50 states would separate, and so would I, and so would you.

So We Must Remember!