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| Joseph W. Stevens |   
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 | Freedom Isn't Free 
 I watched the flag pass by one day.
 It fluttered in the breeze
 A young soldier saluted it, and then
 He stood at ease.
 I looked at him in uniform
 So young, so tall, so proud
 With hair cut square and eyes alert
 He'd stand out in any crowd.
 I thought how many men like him
 Had fallen through the years.
 How many died on foreign soil?
 How many mothers' tears?
 How many Pilots' planes shot down?
 How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
 No Freedom isn't free
 
 I heard the sound of taps one night,
 When everything was still.
 I listened to the bugler play
 And felt a sudden chill.
 I wondered just how many times
 That taps had meant "Amen"
 When a flag had draped a coffin
 of a brother or a friend.
 I thought of all the children,
 Of the mothers and the wives,
 Of fathers, sons and husbands
 With interrupted lives.
 I thought about a graveyard at the
 bottom of the sea
 Of unmarked graves in Arlington.....
 No -- Freedom isn't free!!
 
 ...Cadet Major Kelly Strong
 Air Force Junior ROTC
 
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