Yesterday (7/25) we brought the Viet Nam Memorial Moving Wall into town for a four day stay. The Moving Wall is a replica of the real Memorial in Washington, D.C., although smaller. All 58,195 names are there. It will remain on display through Sunday during our POW*MIA Rally and Bike Rodeo. It was while I was riding as part of the 125 bike escort to The Wall that this poem came to me.
Escorting the Wall
We escorted The Moving Wall today
Rode beside it into our town
The names all there reminding us
Of brothers and Sisters who went down
We escorted The Moving Wall today
But it isn’t with The Wall that we ride
We ride with those fifty-eight thousand,
One ninety-five brothers and sisters who died.
Their country and you and me
They served us well, but then they fell
Their homes never again to see
But we don’t ride with The Wall
Its all those people whose names are there
We’re riding with those who gave all.
So visit the wall and bow your heads
Remember them with pride,
Then raise them a glass and keep riding on
With the spirits of those who died.
Bill “uglicoyote”
3 comments:
Thank YOU brother for serving...and thanks for remembering and reminding us...we've been given so much.
Thank You Brother and welcome home. Escorting my brothers and sisters on the wall has been an experience that I cherish. Thrice done, thrice cherished. I have the same lump in my throat each time.
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