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"The Empty Pot Gold” A tribute for men who went to war proud to stand their gun in hand, ready the command to fire dark the night, what for so far from home. Liberty not threatened there married my wife, lovely so faithful the bride, blue eyes shining her love for me, hiding in a desert dry to die dark the oil flowing below, pumped into tankers, worth a fortune, sailing away. My memory now confused cannons firing, bursting a million fragments, showers of steel too bright to see, our Savior holding my hand rising high into heaven, without fear of failure my wife weeping, the sad news. “Why this empty pot of gold delivered folded in a flag, useless for me to live without a husband, buried today?”
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