<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420168" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Semper Fi</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Note: This poem is a fictional re-imagining of the poem 'Mother' written by Padraig Pearse the night before his execution in 1916.<br>It has a changed point of view and had been moved to Afghanistan,2009. I apologize to all who misconstrued this to be about the death of a specific marine lance corporal) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This loss is very hard upon his mother: <br>To endure first his birth and then his death.<br>The time between -scarcely a generation<br>But in that short span of time he proved his worth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are too few, the proud who wear the emblem, <br>And fight our countries battles in our stead.<br>Where they found him, his position was surrounded <br>By the bleeding bodies of Jihadist dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enroll his name among our Countries’ heroes<br>Remember him for all of time to come, <br>But put away the medal they awarded-<br>I need no medal to recall my son.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My brave strong son who first fought in Fallujah, <br>and battled militants in Kandahar.<br>He joined the fallen as his tour was ending<br>Now all that we have left is a gold star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But in the long nights that are surely coming<br>I will speak his name within my heart.<br>I will take certain comfort in the knowledge<br>That our son was faithful and he fought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420168" data-title="Semper Fi de John F. McCullagh" data-description="(Note: This poem is a fictional re-imagining of the poem 'Mother' written by Padraig Pearse the night before his execution in 1916. It has a changed point of view and had been moved to Afghanistan,2009. I apologize to all who misconstrued this to ..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black