FREEDOM'S CHILD

Remembering the Pain this Memorial Day

It was 2006, and my Daughter was outside the wire in Iraq.  I was driving back from town, having sent packages to her APO when heard Billy Joe Shaver singing, "Freedom's Child was laid to rest, singing Freedom's song"...

and I had to pull over, because I couldn't stop sobbing. 

All these years later, I still remember; How close she came-  the bomb that hit her convoy, that helicopter flight she didn't take, the shell that missed...

then I remember the ones who were with her, who never came home. 

To all the Veterans and Military Families out there, who cannot 'celebrate' this Memorial Day- you have my love eternal. 

I will never forget.