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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sl1000794" data-source="post: 344621" data-attributes="member: 6974"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">In the Northern part of Europe,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Where the Channel meets the shore;</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">There sits a lonely stretch of sand,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Once touched by the hand of War.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">You can watch the tourists staring</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">As they try to understand</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The bravery the men must have</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">To wade up on that strand.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Twenty-thousand men set off</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">From the coasts of Jolly Ole';</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Four thousand men would perish</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">And give to God their soul.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">On Omaha and Utah,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Gold, Juno and on Sword,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Those brave Allied soldiers</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Made their peace unto the Lord.</span></span></p><hr /><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The men they hailed from Southern towns</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Or cities in the North;</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">From London, Maine and Saskatoon</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Ike called them to set forth.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The job was planned for many years;</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Nothing left to chance.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The Allied troops were coming</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">To push the Germans out of France.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The chilled winds blew from the Heavens;</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Icy rain fell from the sky;</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">But the soldiers still came onward</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">They would not be denied.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">On Omaha and Utah,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Gold, Juno and on Sword,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The brave Allied soldiers</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Made their peace unto the Lord.</span></span></p><hr /><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The Germans held the high ground,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Their guns a harrowing sight;</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The beach was fraught with peril</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">As the Allies did alight.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Men and comrades fell</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">When the Germans found their aim;</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Some died there in the water</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The rest pushed back their pain.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">They shivered in the cold</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">But would not give into fear;</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The Allied troops kept going</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">And gave their lives so dear.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">On Omaha and Utah,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Gold, Juno and on Sword,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The brave Allied soldiers</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Made their peace unto the Lord.</span></span></p><hr /><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">In the Northern part of Europe,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Where the Channel meets the sea;</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Stands a solitary figure</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">On the coast of Normandy.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">He sees the crosses in a row</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Where the heroes now do lay;</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">They fell seven decades the past</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">On what history calls D-Day.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">He takes his hat off slowly</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">To those who died and those who live;</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">To the brave souls, good and true,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Who gave all they had to give.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">On Omaha and Utah,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Gold, Juno and on Sword,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The brave Allied soldiers</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Made their peace unto the Lord.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Poem by Jay Cantrell.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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