DEAR READERS: This wonderful poem, written as the closing remarks for a friend's speech on Memorial Day at a veterans cemetery, was sent to me by the author's wife, Marie C. Middleton. I think it is fitting to print it to honor Veterans Day. Read on:
A SOLDIER'S PRAYER
by Maj. Gen. James B. Middleton
Lord, bless the wives
who grieve alone,
And comfort the mothers
who mourn their own.
Give solace to the fathers
who lost their sons
On foreign shores and in
places unknown.
Lord, strengthen the resolve
of we who remain
To see that they did not
die in vain.