<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507271" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Liberators</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of all the people in the mornings at the mall,<br>It's the old liberators I like best,<br>Those veterans of the Bulge, Anzio, or Monte Cassino<br>I see lost in Automotive or back in Home Repair,<br>Bored among the paints and power tools.<br>Or the really old ones, the ones who are going fast,<br>Who keep dozing off in the little orchards<br>Of shade under the distant skylights.<br>All around, from one bright rack to another,<br>Their wives stride big as generals,<br>Their handbags bulging like ripe fruit.<br>They are almost all gone now,<br>And with them they are taking the flak<br>And fire storms, the names of the old bombing runs.<br>Each day a little more of their memory goes out,<br>Darkens the way a house darkens,<br>Its rooms quietly filling with evening,<br>Until nothing but the wind lifts the lace curtains,<br>The wind bearing through the empty rooms<br>The rich far off scent of gardens<br>Where just now, this morning,<br>Light is falling on the wild philodendrons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Hedin">Robert Hedin</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=507271" data-title="The Old Liberators de Robert Hedin" data-description="Of all the people in the mornings at the mall, It's the old liberators I like best, Those veterans of the Bulge, Anzio, or Monte Cassino I see lost in Automotive or back in Home Repair, Bored among the paints and power tools. Or the really old one..."></div> </div> </div>

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