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THIS IS A POEM THAT MY FARTHER CARRIED FOR MOST OF THE WAR.EL ALAMAIN, SALURNO, AND UP THROUGH ITALY AND HOME.
(THE AFRICA STAR)
FOR THOSE WHOSE BATTLEFIELDS WERE IN THE SKIES,WHO FOUGHT THEIR DEADLY DUELS ABOUT THE SUN,AND TOOK THE LONLEY ROAD AMONG THE STARS TO NO MANS LAND,BEYOND THE NIGHTS HORIZON.
FOR THOSE WHO SAW THE DESERTS GREY PLAIN BURN BELOW THEM, MILES ON MILES, THE SMOULDERING WILDERNESS.
FOR THOSE WE
KNEW WHO NEVER WILL RETURN, WHOS NAMES ARE POSTED MISSING OVERDUE.
FOR THOSE A SLENDER BLUE BAR OF BRAVE HORIZON BLUE.

FOR THOSE WHOSE BATTLEFIELDS WERE ON THE DEEP, EXPANSES OF THE OCEANS HOSTILE WAVE.
WHO PLOUGHED THE LONLEY COUSE OF DUTY DONE AND FOR THEIR WAGES TOOK A WATERY GRAVE.
WHOSE LOYALTY WAS WITNESSED ON THE SANDS BY QUIETE EVEDENCE OF WRECKAGE STREWN, AND PUBLISHED BY THE SEA WITH WANTON HANDS, UPON THE NEWSPRINT OF SCATTERED DUNES.
FOR THOSE A BAR OF DEEP SEA BLUE.

AND IN THE CENTRE WHERE THE WAY WAS RED WITH SUFFERING UPON THE STRICKEN PLAIN, WERE THOSE WHOSE COURAGE IN THEIR LONG DEFEATS REMAIN THE SAME AS IN THEIR HARD WON GAINS.
THOSE WHOSE VAST GREY LONELYNESS WAS LEAD UPON THE BURDENED HEART. AND WHOSE COMPANIONS WERE THE GHOSTS OF THOSE THEY KNEW AMONG THE DEA.
FOR THESE A WIDE BAR OF POPPY RED.

AND FOR THOSE ALL OF WHO SHARED THE COMMON LOT OF SUFFERING THROUGH THE PASSING YEARS.
FOR EVERY MAN AMONG THEM WHO AS NOT FORGOT, THE COMRADSHIP OF STEEL THE YEARS FORGED.
FOR THOSE WHOS WATCHWORD WAS THE FINEST ANYONE CAN LEARN, THAT BLOWS FULL HARDEST WHEN YOURE BEATEN DOWN,
BUT THAT A TIME WILL SURELY COME WHEN FORTUNES TURN.
FOR ALL THESE A COMRADES FIELD OF DESERT BROWN.

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