Poems From Inside Me

On the 70th Anniversary of D-Day

1944, Operation Overlord (D-Day, June 6)

Brave men had fought their way through the African dunes

And climbed up and through the Italian ruins

Some had been fighting to the heart of the enemy land

Fighting and bombing always their deaths close at hand

The Canadian boys had crossed the ocean fearlessly

In the hopes of making Europe once again free

They all banded together with the yanks and the French

Who just short years before they had shared many a trench

They readied their weapons, they massed up their fleet

Soon the sands of Normandy would be under their feet

All the best men were chosen to spearhead the attack

They knew once they sailed there was no turning back

They first tried on the 5th in the wind and the rain

Then at the last moment weather turned them back again

Somehow they had kept their invasion secret from the enemy

And that made for better chances as they crossed the sea

Many men died just going over to survey the battle grounds

There was a way through but no way around

The Germans had built up a wall full of mortars and guns

Churchill sent out the call that he would get those Huns

And then on the 6th the biggest fleet the world had known

Said goodbye to England and the kindness she had shown

First came the paras, brave men, all volunteers

Bloodied and trained told to forget all their fears

They boarded their planes in the night and prepared for the worst

Those brave young warriors were always the first

Soon as they had hoped the invasion did come

Still there was wind and clouds and little sun

There was a small break in the weather just enough to get through

When the Nazi's saw our boys coming they knew what to do

They set up fields of fire and pinned the men down

Even our Canadian boys fighting for family, country and crown

They inched up the beaches there was so many dangers

I won't forget the tall cliffs climbed by the proud US Rangers

The men kept on coming, wave after wave

Most of them found just a watery grave

But somehow they did it and by the day's end

They had a beach and some bridges that they could defend

They had to help Russia, they had to free France

If it hadn't been then they may have lost their chance

As the next days went by all the Allies fought like mad

And the Nazis fought back with all that they had

But a soft spot remains in my heart for those men

Who won the battle for freedom so I can now use this pen

June 6, 2014

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