WW II - a Poem for NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 20

 

Lockheed P-38 - U.S. Army Air Aircraft 

My WW II Hero 

He was just a boy 

when he enlisted 

Mother and Father 

had to sign for him 

At age seventeen 

he was in Flight School 

And at eighteen was 

making bombing runs 

Flying from Afri-

ca to Italy 

Solo dropping bombs 

on German strongholds 

Early December 

it was his last run 

Downed by enemy's 

antiaircraft guns 

And killed in his own 

dropping parachute 

Body was buried 

by Italian priest 

Later was exhumed 

moved to New Orleans 

There rests peacefully 

may he rest in peace 

Baby sister born 

January first 

She never got to 

know him, her brother 

Lady now, he's her 

World War Two hero 

                     Hero gave his all 

His Sister so proud, as me 

His Brother-in-law 

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