Forget Me Not
by: Don Poss, WS LM-01
(Copyright � 1999)

I am a Vietnam Veteran.
I was there, with these men of The Wall.
I am with them now.

Their names are here---come and see!
   Read the dappled letters ...
   touch the lights once bright.

Have you shared a tear with
     who they loved ...
     or the memory of when you heard,
     the night you cried, and
     times you wondered why?

Have you even remembered
This host of granite names so
     fleeting in hearts and minds---
     Who they were ... 
         Who they touched ...
             Who they touch today?

Does it even matter they lived
   Or died
   Or cried a friend to heaven?
   Or will you forget---
      would you if you could?

Blood spilt on Vietnam's soil---
   in pain
      in rain
         in glory
      in vain---
   still reaps the land today.

I am a Vietnam Veteran.
I was there, with these men of The Wall

I am with them now.