What is Memorial Day? by Jim Hutchinson

Is Memorial Day a Hardware sale?

A good price on a garden pail ?

Did my buddies give their limbs, lives, and sinew

For chicken, stakes, and barbecue ?

For The Coward to place a wreath on sacred ground,

While my comrades are crippled and wheelchair bound

Did my buddies die in that living green hell.

For endless rows of cars to sell ?

For drunks, accidents and long traffic jams,

Did my buddies perish in Vietnam .

So while young men drool over the Memorial Day Queen

I ll remember my buddies -The Living,The Dead and The In - Between.