Lest We Forget

I've embraced the cold mounds of earth, walked unyielding concrete, crawled muddy entrenchments...joined fire team members praying for deliverance ...endured personal inconvenience, exhaustion, and a frequently critical society

I’ve seen much time; peacetime, wartime, worktime, zulutime, and protected time...standing alone, I've chased shadows, feared death, nurtured the unknown, and recounted lost sunsets,

I've patrolled with rifle in hand and radio so cold.

I've have survived...to share a silent farewell and unwelcome tear as I folded a falling star into a field blue on a remote cemetery hill.

I have maintained solitary vigil. My comfort is the sight of our aircraft climbing into the heaven, the U.S. Flag waving proudly, and the ability to convey a "Sierra Hotel" to the sentinel assuming my position as a "Keeper of the peace"...

                     ....who never sleeps

I am a security policeman   

By David Liaguno, Col USAF (Ret)