Mistaken Identity
Thank You for Veterans Day,
to honor our living veterans
who served or are serving
in the armed forces.
Please bless them!
May the freedom they fight for
not be taken away by the pen
of misguided politicians.
May our
freedom
never become a
distant memory.
Thank You, Lord,
for my dad surviving WWII
and coming home with a Purple Heart
and a piece of shrapnel
they took out of his head.
Thank you for the way he lovingly
talked about his brother
who was killed in France.
Thank You, that I have
Uncle Bill’s Purple Heart.
When Dad had Alzheimer's
I was driving him home one dark night
and when he started
asking me strange questions,
I realized he thought I was Uncle Bill.
It was kind of creepy.
He’d cite some memories
of him and his brother
and asked, kind of shocked,
“Don’t you remember that?”
But it was a compliment
to be linked to his beloved brother.
When I imagine
Heaven
I picture
being greeted
by Dad and
Uncle Bill.
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