MEMORIAL DAY PRAYER: A POEM (Send as Memorial Day eCard!) A prayer solemn I offer this Memorial Day: It is for our valiant Veterans I do humbly pray. Selfless, sacrificial, Risking death gallantly - Soldiers do all this To ensure I am free. So many have died There on the battleground; No music then to comfort, Simply gun blasts all around. So many names and faces That I will never know; So many stories of bravery In warring winds did blow. Grateful am I to these Men and Women brave; I marvel at all they did, All they risked, all they gave. Extend this heartfelt prayer I will, to reach their ears; How treasured they are to me, Marching onward despite fears! And for those who have passed, May God bless them lavishly, These very ones who died So that I would live free. In the stories of Veterans I see a shadow of the Cross: Christ died to set me free, My gain is through His loss. Grateful… [more]