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Here and there, some treasured family photos Are tacked to the simple crossed boards. Further on, at the base of a flag-draped coffin, A pair of soldier’s boots rest near and polished, Home at last from their final march.

In each row, a few crosses are topped By a Star of David or a crescent moon. All religions, all races die side by side in war, And the only line in the sand that cannot be crossed Is the red one of every soldier’s blood.

Death wears the same uniform As every soldier on earth, And rules every army as Commander-in-Chief, Whose ultimate order can deferred But never disobeyed.

Only a permanent end to war Can override that warrior with the faceless skull Who stalks the world’s battlefields With a scythe blade in one hand, And an automatic rifle in the other.

The haunted living are drawn each weekend like a magnet: The surviving veterans, sorrowful and proud, The families of fallen veterans, grieving and proud, Graying warriors with backs bent From the weight of ancient conflicts.

And students too young to fight, Whose turn will come in conflicts not yet named. Slowly another Sunday will end, And the last visitors will leave their prayers, Their mementos, and loving kisses, As night falls on a strange wooden army Of crosses in the

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