November 11, 2009

The more things change

Photo: April 23, 1983

Veterans Day 2009
by Mary Cartledgehayes

the more things change,
the more the dead
remain the same,
whether draped
in flags
or buried
in unmarked sand
or swamp
or good black earth
or red clay dirt
forest or
desert or
city

true wealth of the nations lost

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