<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427156" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Okinawa</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Armada sails<br>Island after island<br>Battalions land<br>Ominous silence<br>Jungles become fierce roaring lions<br>Machine gun nests<br>Relentless enemy with no surrender<br>Casualties, the maimed and dying<br>Rain, mud, the dead unburied<br>Torture, dehumanization, madness<br>Corpses defiled<br>Attack after attack<br>Night becomes a morbid nightmare<br>Shadows, ghosts, artillery fire<br>The rocks splattered with blood<br>Strategic hills, hidden caves <br>Caves where fear shivers<br>They fight and wait for the emperor<br>Huddled in the cold darkness<br>Foreign voice echoes off the rocks<br>Warned to come out for the last time<br>Some sealed in their bleak darkness <br>Exploded into kingdom come<br>Finally the flag waves in sober winds<br>Thousands and thousands in early graves<br>Count your dead<br>Purple hearts<br>Remember these brave children of war<br>They no longer hear the guns and roar<br>They lay silent with honor<br>Okinawa falls</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Joseph+Narusiewicz">Joseph Narusiewicz</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=427156" data-title="Okinawa de Joseph Narusiewicz" data-description="Armada sails Island after island Battalions land Ominous silence Jungles become fierce roaring lions Machine gun nests Relentless enemy with no surrender Casualties, the maimed and dying Rain, mud, the dead unburied Torture, dehumanization, madnes..."></div> </div> </div>

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