Del a.k.a. Abe Jones Poems

Born in May of Eighteen eighty-eight
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HARVEY KORMAN AKA HEDLEY LAMARR
FEBRUARY 15,1927 – MAY 29,2008
R.I.P.
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As early as the Fourth, B.C.
Back in the Roman Nation
A boy was assigned a girl
For a one year duration.
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I wrote this for the Honor Guard benefit at VFW Post 4641, in Dickson, TN. If you have a VFW in your town please forward this on to them. Honor Guards rarely get the thanks they deserve.
Thanks,
Abe
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Left With A Life Of Dying


I have a friend who has a Son
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HE’S GONE TO MEET THE PRESS

Sadly, we have lost another one
Those folks who changed our lives
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MUCH MORE THAN SPORTS
James Kenneth McManus
September 24,1921 – June 7,2008
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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4,1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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Another Independence Day

We’re another year older now
And, I wonder, what they’d say
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Gold Star Mothers

Started with a group of twenty-five
In the year of twenty-eight
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