In Honor of D-Day

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In the Northern part of Europe,
Where the Channel meets the shore;
There sits a lonely stretch of sand,
Once touched by the hand of War.

You can watch the tourists staring
As they try to understand
The bravery the men must have
To wade up on that strand.

Twenty-thousand men set off
From the coasts of Jolly Ole';
Four thousand men would perish
And give to God their soul.

On Omaha and Utah,
Gold, Juno and on Sword,
Those brave Allied soldiers
Made their peace unto the Lord.


The men they hailed from Southern towns
Or cities in the North;
From London, Maine and Saskatoon
Ike called them to set forth.

The job was planned for many years;
Nothing left to chance.
The Allied troops were coming
To push the Germans out of France.

The chilled winds blew from the Heavens;
Icy rain fell from the sky;
But the soldiers still came onward
They would not be denied.

On Omaha and Utah,
Gold, Juno and on Sword,
The brave Allied soldiers
Made their peace unto the Lord.


The Germans held the high ground,
Their guns a harrowing sight;
The beach was fraught with peril
As the Allies did alight.

Men and comrades fell
When the Germans found their aim;
Some died there in the water
The rest pushed back their pain.

They shivered in the cold
But would not give into fear;
The Allied troops kept going
And gave their lives so dear.

On Omaha and Utah,
Gold, Juno and on Sword,
The brave Allied soldiers
Made their peace unto the Lord.


In the Northern part of Europe,
Where the Channel meets the sea;
Stands a solitary figure
On the coast of Normandy.

He sees the crosses in a row
Where the heroes now do lay;
They fell seven decades the past
On what history calls D-Day.

He takes his hat off slowly
To those who died and those who live;
To the brave souls, good and true,
Who gave all they had to give.

On Omaha and Utah,
Gold, Juno and on Sword,
The brave Allied soldiers
Made their peace unto the Lord.

Poem by Jay Cantrell.
 
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