<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450616" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Force of His Words</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The skeletal fingers of dawn folded back the<br>Cover of darkness revealing the machinery of war.<br>Battlewagons, Destroyers, Troop-transports, <br>Supply and Hospital ships blackened the lagoon.<br>Sixteen-inch gun shells split the sky, with the sound<br>Of tearing canvas, as projectiles passed overhead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As if in agony the earth writhed and collapsed <br>As the explosives ripped into the sub-strata, <br>Exposing its connective tissue. <br>In desolation, the island lay scourged as the sea soothed <br>Its torment by filling its wounds with water and sand <br>Through the action of the healing waves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Landing craft hugged the sides of the ship as the 81st Army<br>Division disembarked. Clinging to the bulkhead nets, they <br>Climbed cautiously down into the open maw of the small<br>Craft beneath them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a young lieutenant swung his legs over the side, <br>I heard him say: <br>'I hope the war lasts one more year. <br>By then, I'll have paid off my farm.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men were falling from enemy fire as the first wave of boats<br>Emptied their human cargo.<br>We picked up the wounded.<br>The lieutenant had a large hole in his chest, <br>He had been shot from behind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His words, like bullets fired, could not be recalled.<br>His GI insurance paid off the farm<br>He would never see again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lynn+W.+Petty">Lynn W. Petty</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=450616" data-title="The Force of His Words de Lynn W. Petty" data-description="The skeletal fingers of dawn folded back the Cover of darkness revealing the machinery of war. Battlewagons, Destroyers, Troop-transports, Supply and Hospital ships blackened the lagoon. Sixteen-inch gun shells split the sky, with the sound Of te..."></div> </div> </div>

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