Remembrance message for the blue jackets

[bigugli]

It was passed on from one blue jacket in my family to me, and I send it on to any blue jacket here.

 

Lest We Forget

 

In Waters Deep

In ocean wastes no poppies blow.

No crosses stand in ordered row.

There young hearts sleep...beneath the wave...

The spirited, the good, the brave,

But stars a constant vigil keep,

For them who lie beneath the deep.

'Tis true you cannot kneel in prayer

On certain spot and think, "He's there".

But you can to the ocean go...

See whitecaps marching row on row;

Know one for him will always ride...

In and out... with every tide.

 

Eileen Mahoney

 

Edited November 9, 2011 by bigugli

[mercman]

That gave me goose bumps.

Thanks for that.

 

 

[fishindevil]

thats awesome thanks !!

[cynmar]

Thank you, my late father was in the RCNVR on the HMCS Royal Mount in the 2nd world war. That was beautiful.

 

Bill

[lew]

My Dad joined the Navy in 1940 and spent the next 5 years fighting for our freedom. That's Dad on your right covered in coal dust after just coming out of the engine room.

 

His buddy beside him burned to death later on when the boiler exploded.

 

 

This was his ship.