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Photographer: K. Linzmeier
Taken: September 18, 2014
Caption:
Left Panel | Additional Description:
(POW MIA Logo)
Dedicated to
American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action
The Loneliest Prayer
As I squat here in the lonely place ·
A man maybe even you forgot, ·
I wonder, ·
Am I alive or not? ·
I think it's more than ten years now ·
Since my last friend left this place. ·
I guess he's back home - ·
Whatever that is - ·
Among the human race. ·
Forgive me Lord, ·
If I seem untrue ·
To the values that my parents taught, ·
To my thoughts of you, ·
Of family and of country - ·
Those things for which I fought. ·
But, as I've endured the endless days ·
That dragged on into years, ·
I've battled with all my very being ·
To hold back bitter tears. ·
My children, ·
By now they're nearly grown. ·
My poor wife - she's had that too; ·
She's raised them all alone. ·
I've wept to hold my darlings, ·
To watch my children grow, ·
To feel your presence, Lord, ·
My faith in you to show. ·
Bless me, Father, and take this life, ·
Please let it end today. ·
I wonder how they listed me - ·
POW or
MIA?
By Hardy Abbott
Official Poem of the National Forget-Me-Not Association 1987
Submitted: October 16, 2014, by Keith L of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.
Database Locator Identification Number: p289008
File Size: 9.807 Megabytes
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