Victories Require Validation

Music: The Marsh of Rhuddlan. Sequenced by Barry Taylor.

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Alpha List Veterans Day Poems Contents Home Copyright by Nicholas Gordon

Victories require validation. Each act of violence must file its brief. The loss of loved ones must find consolation, Ennobled by some passionate belief. Regard, then, all the murdered of the ages, Aghast at all the words that justified, Not without cause, the ever righteous rages, So small against the sum of those who died. Deliverance depends upon the wages A veteran might earn on either side Years hence, when hate has given way to grief.