REDNECK HIPPIE

GOOD MORNING TO ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE OR ARE SERVING WITH HONOR IN THE ARMED SERVICES OF THE FREE WORLD, THEIR FAMILIES AND SUPPORTERS. MAY YOUR DAY BE SAFE AND PEACEFUL. < < http://www.youtube .com/profile?user= jcastillo57#p/u/0/ OksXC3yt6us < < David R. “Poppa” Alexander REMEMBER THESE? Main Street Your best friend Pete The drive-in movie When things were groovy? Billy doesn’t Mr. Patton the math teacher, Sunday dinner with the preacher; The sweet smell of Sally’s perfume, Mother’s flowers in bloom? Billy doesn’t The football game Saturday night dates with your first flame Mother’s apple pie Lying on your back looking at the blue sky? Billy doesn’t Dad teaching you how to saw a board Make believe with wooden swords Pestering your sister with frogs Your very best dogs? Billy doesn’t The swimming hole with your fishing pole Taking Sally for a stroll Grandma and Grandpa loving you so The sound of a crow? Billy doesn’t Billy died in Vietnam A quick explosion from an errant bomb Maybe he is the wind rustling in the trees That is how he still speaks to me Billy does remember these To remember Billy as all of these And remember him in all you see For don’t forget Billy and all he was For Billy really does, REMEMBER THESE ©Copyright August 19, 2002 by David R. Alexander (6 hrs ago | post #3910)

We are one http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=AAeFl V2yNOU&feature =related (Yesterday | post #501)

A better world. http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=QSlCG 5ycgIk&feature =related (Yesterday | post #500)

pay it forward http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=7z1gQ XGRorw&feature =fvw (Yesterday | post #499)

make a difference http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=QcyQt HAnt-s&feature =related (Yesterday | post #498)

A song for everyday heroes http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=ad-tN koRvSo&feature =pyv&ad=273780 3488&gclid=CNb B7Jyr5Z4CFQMUawod7 lF2Jg People like You (Yesterday | post #497)

Dedicate a song

FOUND THIS ON THE OTHER SONG THREAD AND THOUGHT YA'LL WOULD LIKE IT. http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=m3gMg K7h-BA&feature =PlayList&p=85 1006616B4BB9DB &index=89& playnext=3&pla ynext_from=PL (Yesterday | post #14158)

GOOD MORNING TO ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE OR ARE SERVING WITH HONOR IN THE ARMED SERVICES OF THE FREE WORLD, THEIR FAMILIES AND SUPPORTERS. MAY YOUR DAY BE SAFE AND PEACEFUL. < < http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=-wb_J CSVURs < < David R. “Poppa” Alexander REFLECTIONS OF LOST SOULS Looking into a muddy streams Reflections that bring on many dreams Lost friends and comrades of old Many a story that could be told. When one stares into such a mirrored reflection Ones soul is stirred with recollection For not only is your face looking back into your eyes But many more of those gone on, those faces so wise. A stare of those dead and gone Into their eyes you are drawn. Once again you see the thousand yard stare With you their pain they share. A reflection of the young and brave men A sacrifice given for a nation that didn’t care and you pray “never again”. Their faces around your own image you can see And but for the grace of God one of them could be thee. Reflections of Lost Souls Killed in many wars and many hellholes. Today those reflections are too real A wound in your stomach that will not heal. Tomorrow many more faces will be in this pool The world learns no lessons, and leaders play us for the fool. Stand up, take a stick and muddy the stream So that you can walk away and not scream. So many gave so much for a people to be free Then come home to a homeland that did not agree. What a welcome home these reflections will receive A coffin, a lonely marker, a hole in the ground and those left to grieve. A reflection may hold the beauty that nature has made Or the reflections of one’s soul and the mistakes there laid. Beauty, peace or death, these can be seen in a reflection However each one of us must decide what we will see and which recollection. ©Copyright July 16, 2003 by David R. Alexander Submitted for the July 2003 IWVPA Club Theme Project, “Reflections” (Yesterday | post #3888)

Fair winds and following seas , you will not be forgotten R.I.P. (Yesterday | post #3887)

http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=r2lUd wbK8sk&feature =related One Song - A Song For World Peace & Togetherness (Saturday | post #493)

http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=ETqQF 1VV18Q&feature =related Peace around the world (Saturday | post #492)

American Soldiers Rock III

Dedicated to all of those in harms way A CAMP DAVID OVERTURE (Prayer for Peace) http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=2au5S OYhO-8&feature =response_watch (Saturday | post #20857)