Normandy 1944 2008

[CaptO]

Also reminded me of the great Carl Sandburg poem "Grass". (yet another great war poem)

 

For those of you not familiar:

 

GRASS

 

by: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

 

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo,

Shovel them under and let me work--

I am the grass; I cover all.

 

And pile them high at Gettysburg

And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.

Shovel them under and let me work.

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:

What place is this?

Where are we now?

 

I am the grass.

Let me work.

 

This is one that I had forgotten about or I would have added it to the War Peom section (part I, II, and III.) It is one of my favorites.