What is wrapped in a medal
Of deeds that showed their metal
Blood, bayonets and battle had
For mates, for right against the bad
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The second half of hail to an old hero as powerful as the first Your poetry commerates the memories of the dead. ....and i will remember
This is such a beautiful poem powerful and sad these words imprinted in my mnd But I am now an older man Who sometimes finds it difficult to stand And I have seen and done things That I now see only in my dreams Truly a hail to an old hero of the past