<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Days of Infamy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day recedes into peaceful night<br>spreading gentle darkness<br>over wide California fields, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the flames of history<br>nearly forgotten<br>but for the ember glow<br>In the wrinkled cobalt sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we remember<br>bloody days</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when war-planes roared<br>into the rising Pacific sun<br>and ripped it<br>in sanguine strips.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bombs pierced polished decks, <br>and amazed sailors dove<br>into crimson waters, <br>as the Rising Sun spread darkness<br>Over half the globe</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sixty-nine years ago...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">... yet just say the date<br>and silence fills any room.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We remember movies we’ve seen<br>Of dive-bombers and chaos, <br>heroes rising in fighters to<br>stave off the improbable wave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We see old men in service caps, <br>Tossing wreaths into<br>bright Hawaiian waters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They weep<br>as old wounds<br>again bleed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They gaze into the sad eyes<br>Of buddies who<br>didn’t make it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we think of our own losses, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Korea and Vietnam, <br>torrents of blood<br>flowing through fertile<br>Asian valleys, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the obscenity of 9-11, <br>insurgency raping<br>Iraq and<br>Afghanistan, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and we ask, “When will it end? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nodding slowly, <br>we know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Federle">Steven Federle</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=521379" data-title="Days of Infamy de Steven Federle" data-description="The day recedes into peaceful night spreading gentle darkness over wide California fields, the flames of history nearly forgotten but for the ember glow In the wrinkled cobalt sky. But we remember bloody days when war-planes roared into the ri..."></div> </div> </div>

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