[h1 style="margin-left: 36pt;"][span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"]I DO NOT KNOW YOUR NAME[/span][span style=""][o:p][/o:p][/span][/h1] [p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"][span style="font-family: Arial;"]I do not know your name, but I know you died[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]I do not know from where you came, but I know you died[/span]
[/p] [p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"][span style="font-family: Arial;"]Your uniform, branch of service, it matters not to me[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]Whether Volunteer or Conscript, or how it came to be[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]That politicians failures, or some power-mad ambition[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]Brought you too soon to your death, in the name of any nation[/span]
[/p] [p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"][span style="font-family: Arial;"]You saw, you felt, you knew full well, as friend and foe were taken[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]By bloody death, that your life too, was forfeit and forsaken[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]Yet on you went and fought and died, in your close and private hell[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]For Mate or Pal or Regiment and memories never to tell[/span]
[/p] [p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"][span style="font-family: Arial;"]It was for each other, through shot and shell, the madness you endured[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]Side by side, through wound and pain, and comradeship assured[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]No family ties, or bloodline link, could match that bond of friend[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]Who shared the horror and kept on going, at last until the end[/span]
[/p] [p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"][span style="font-family: Arial;"]We cannot know, we were not there, it's beyond our comprehension[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]To know the toll that battle brings, of resolute intention[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]To carry on, day by day, for all you loved and hoped for[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]To live in peace a happy life, away from bloody war[/span]
[/p] [p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"][span style="font-family: Arial;"]For far too many, no long life ahead, free of struggle and pain and the gun[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]And we must remember the price that was paid, by each and every one[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]Regardless of views, opinions aside, no matter how each of us sees it[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]They were there and I cannot forget, even though I did not live it[/span]
[/p] [p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;"][span style="font-family: Arial;"]I do not know your name, but I know you died[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]I do not know from where you came, but I know you died.[/span] [/p] [p style="margin-right: 36pt; margin-left: 36pt;"][span style="font-family: Arial;"]Kenny Martin[/span]
[span style="font-family: Arial;"]© 2003 [/span][/p] [p class="MsoNormal"][a href="vny!://www.warpoetry.co.uk/RemembranceB.htm"]vny!://www.warpoetry.co.uk/RemembranceB.htm[/a][/p] [p class="MsoNormal"][!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--] [!--[endif]--][o:p][/o:p][/p] [p class="MsoNormal"]God bless all the soldiers who died in the two great wars 1914 – 1918 and 1939 - 1945, they are gone but never forgotten. They secured our freedom... The same freedom we often take for granted. God bless all soldiers that have fought in wars since.
[/p] [p class="MsoNormal"][!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--] [!--[endif]--][o:p][/o:p]I f it wasn't for the brave soldiers giving their lives forums like this would never be alowed.[/p] [p class="MsoNormal"][!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--] [!--[endif]--][o:p][/o:p]
May we never... [/p] [p class="MsoNormal"]ever forget their sacrifices.
[/p] Very touching video
bless you.