This Poem was Submitted By: JAMES H SCARBROUGH On Date: 2001-07-23 16:21:30 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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AMERICA'S FAVORITE SONS

I remember faces of my brothers   as each of them met his death. I recall pain of sorrowful remorse    as each one drew his last breath. Like a doctor's son of Georgetown,   and the corn-picker's boy of Waterloo, the Morman preacher's kid of Salt Lake,   and son of a beer bottler of St. Lou. The shrimp fisherman's first-mate   who left home in upstate Cape Cod, each of them stepped on a landmine,   and left Vietnam to favor his God. It was my honor to know and met them   as I first shook each brother's hand. None born to die to be forgotten,   just a soldier in some foreign land. A beef farmer's son from Topeka,   and tan surfboarder from Honolulu, that cotton-picker of nearby Selma,   and a logger's son of Spokane too. An oil tycoon's firtborn of Dallas   and a coalminer's son of Allentown,  Like the son of a Harvard attorney,   they each took an artillery round. A tobacco grower of Winston-Salem,   and dairy farmer's boy near Madison, every brother a hero who died there,   remains America's favorite son.

Copyright © July 2001 JAMES H SCARBROUGH


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