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I DON'T REMEMBER MUCH OF1945

By Dan Donlan, www.PoetryPoem.com/dandy1    Unlock all Features - Upgrade to Poetry Prime

Hey, I was just a kid
Playing hide and seek
Pin the tail on Hervie
Baseball in the vacant lot
Hide and seek air raid sirens
Stuffed in like Sardines
I wanted to be first to find Shirley
War games with wooden rifles
Hated the German's
Yet my Grandpa was part German
Ivan was Russian and on our side
He was my second best friend
I was Irish on Father's side
Mom a descent direct from Constantine
In the cold war I was supposed to hate Ivan
How do you figure this stuff out
Maybe we just shouldn't hate so much
Syria declared war on Germany
Yes this was in 1945
Maybe its time to get Germany's help
Get along people!
Glenn Miller's plane was missing at sea
I have all his albums
Stars and stripes raised over Iwo Jima
God bless America
Ann Frank dies in Nazi concentration camp
She was only fourteen years old
The house next door burned to the ground
Our roof was on fire and but for Barney barking
The fireman forgot we were sleeping
Mom put our roof fire out with a garden hose
Hitler committed suicide what a coward
He was really born Austrian
How do you figure so was my step dad
German's surrender unconditionally
So the world is at peace not really
Atomic bombs destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Today I love my Honda Odyssey van
Korea partitioned by two great powers
I served protecting the south half
It goes on and on and on
Tokyo Rose arrested Jane Fonda in Veit Nam
We all pick sides
I wouldn't watch one of her movies
Get along people! We all come from the
"Womb of the Same Mothers!" Title of a poetry book
But so did Hitler write a book
Not everything you read is truth
Why I perfer the ten commandments over
If you don't believe what I believe
You have no right to believe.
I find terriosm just a little history redundent







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