not_free

Stories & Poems About War

FREEDOM IS NOT FREE

As I go into battle with my comrades at my side,

I think of all the Americans who have fought and died.

At Lexington and Concord the British thought we’d run,

But men put away their plows and picked up their gun.

Valley Forge in winter was bitterly cold and raw,

The patriots’ fight for liberty is read in school by all.

We fought the Civil War; our enemies were our brothers,

So many bloody battles, so many grieving mothers.

But soon we were united from sea to shining sea,

And everyone in our country forever would be free.

World War I was fought in Europe among millions of angry men,

We sent our soldiers over there to fight for freedom again.

The Yanks fought bravely, and many died in pain,

In this war to end all wars, but they did not die in vain.

Nations got together and said we should be as one,

That people will always live free and not under the gun.

But not many years later, war again raised its ugly head,

When World War II was over, millions of people were dead.

It started with a dictator who had an evil plan,

To eliminate certain people out of the Fatherland.

December 7 was a Sunday that we never shall forget,

We were attacked without warning, and the challenge was met.

The people of our country got together and fought as one,

They would fight and work until the war was won.

In Korea and Viet Nam a global threat was fought,

At home in this land of the free, a road to peace was sought.

They called it the Cold War, but history books will tell,

To the men who fought there, it surely felt like hell.

Today in the Middle East we are at war again,

Now the nation watches our courageous women and men

As they fight for liberty like heroes in the past,

May freedom spread in the world and bring us peace at last.

May God have mercy, and we shall never forget,

Those who died defending us; we think of all of them yet.

We have fought on the land, in the air and on the sea,

We fight for freedom everywhere because freedom is not free.

April 1, 2003 Frank Niader

807 Van Houten Ave.

Clifton, NJ 07013