Marsha Burks Megehee left this as a comment on Awesome Gathering of Eagles video but it deserves better than to languish there unread:

Dear Old War Dogs,
I wanted to share my special poem with you -
"A Gathering of Eagles."

It's my way of saying "WELL DONE!" Thank you all for protecting our national treasures, and speaking up for the millions of us who could not be with you.

God Bless You All!
& God Bless the USA!

A GATHERING OF EAGLES

A Gathering of Eagles, Old Glory flew,
POW Flags....thirty thousand of you!
A Band of Brothers gathered around,
Protecting truth and hallowed ground.

The pinko crowd across the way
Had come to town to have their say,
"The War on Terror's just like Nam,
Surrender! We can stop the bombs."

Their CRS prevents recall
Of seeing Southeast Asia's fall,
Of genocide, the Killing Fields!
"Cut and Run." Who's fate was sealed?

POWs, refugees,
Re-education, If you please!
The vocal crowd- the Great Unwashed,
Non-violent? Oh my gosh!

Millions lie in jungle shrowds,
Johnson bowed to the protest crowd.
Ask the Hmong, if they were saved?
By the anti-war crowd's rant and rave?

God Bless You Eagles! Thank you all
For guarding freedom and The Mall.
For standing tall and drowning out,
Three thousand retro-pinko shouts!

Marsha Burks Megehee
sarpoet@datastar.net

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Update: Marsha has sent me several more poems, of which I'll plan on posting one every few days at http://www.oldwardogs.us/marsha_burks_megehee/index.html, and I'm impressed enough that I've offered to create a separate blog for her if she says she'd have time to post to it. More on that later if she accepts my offer.

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Update 2: It turns out there's already a nice collection of Marsha's poetry at http://poetwarrior1.tripod.com/. I'll still plan on posting a lot of what she emailed me and also posting excerpts and links to that site as time goes on.

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Update 3: Marsha has seen the light about the advantages of having both a blog and a static web site. I haven't made any promises about when I'll have it ready but I'm going to set up a blog for her under my TypePad account. Address and details to be announced later.

Contributed by Bill Faith on March 26, 2007 at 03:57 PM in Caring about our troops, Gathering of Eagles, Marsha Burks Megehee, Patriotism, Peacenik Stupidity, Poetry, The American Warrior, US Air Force, US Army, US Coast Guard, US Marine Corps, US Navy, Viet Nam | Permalink

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