Final Honor
It is time to lay this soldier to rest.
In somber silence
the path is traveled.
Comrades offer a crisp salute
as they line the way.
The repeated crack of rifles,
spent shells flying;
a bugle’s mournful song.
The folded flag, presented,
and another hero is gone from our sight,
laid to rest with honor and respect.
It is done.
~ Sandy Moffett
Sandy Moffett has been a writer and lyricist for more than 45 years. She has been published in, Mortuary Management and International Mortuary and Cemetery Management; Cup of Comfort: Devotional for Mothers and Daughters and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels Among Us.
A fine tribute.
May all soldiers, whose young lives were but a moment in time and
will never know what their future may have held, will not have died in vain.
Shalom.
Nelson Varon