Happy Memorial Day !!! We at One On One Kicking Would Like To Say Thank
You, To All That Have Served and Continue to do so. Thank you from the
bottom of our Hearts !!!
Here is a Great Memorial Day Poem From...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The poem pays tribute to what was then a new form of civic observance: a
day set aside to commemorate those who had perished in the Civil War by
placing flags and flowers on soldiers' graves, a custom that gradually
gave rise to our modern Memorial Day honoring all who give their lives
in military service......
Sleep, comrades, sleep and rest
On this Field of the Grounded Arms,
Where foes no more molest,
Nor sentry's shot alarms!
Ye have slept on the ground before,
And started to your feet
At the cannon's sudden roar,
Or the drum's redoubling beat.
But in this camp of Death
No sound your slumber breaks;
Here is no fevered breath,
No wound that bleeds and aches.
All is repose and peace,
Untrampled lies the sod;
The shouts of battle cease,
It is the Truce of God!
Rest, comrades, rest and sleep!
The thoughts of men shall be
As sentinels to keep
Your rest from danger free.
Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
