White Crosses

[Bonefish]

White Crosses

Its an early
Autumn morning
Clouds of fog rise
From the river below
To settle high above
The pillaring
Limestone walls

In the morning sun
Brightly sunlit
Autumn leaves
Softly float
Gently tumble
Among row
After row
Of newly placed
White crosses

On another hill
Another war
Their graves long sealed
Its not if
But when
Another filled

Roy L. Nave, November, 2007
In honor of the ones who died in the Iraq/Afghanistan Wars
Camp Nelson Military Cemetery

Daily, for 12 years as I traveled down U.S. 27 to my farm, I watched a hillside being filled with white crosses marking the ones who gave their life that I might be free to enjoy living. I watched family and friends who came daily in their grief. There is truly a great cost to freedom.

[sweetwater]

I pass by the Veteran's Cemetery that's just off of Dixie Hwy in Radcliffe on a regular basis and every time I pass by there I can't help but to whisper out a thank you while looking at all those white headstones that's up on that hill.