War Is the Same

Normandy...

Legions of men storming mine ridden beaches,
Gunned down, artillery shells spilling shrapnel,
People dying, the end of a line,
Children not able to say goodbye.

Success, they reach the enemy lines,
There they fight the beginning fight,
Tear across Europe until V-E day,
Great America, how it deserves a break.

Home...

War production bringing us out of depression,
FDR smoking, stresses hit hard,
Making a decision to go to war,
His health is failing.

In White Sands, a project is underway,
Operating in secrecy, great minds,
Like Einstein, leading great Manhattan,
The darkest day to dawn in small Japan.

Japan...

MacArthur wounded, troops left thin,
Orders retreat, a government sin,
Roosevelt dies, a country is stricken,
Truman, successor, learns a quick ending.

Hiroshima dies, a bomb to the skies,
Great evil mushroom rising way up high,
Destroying thousands in the blink of an eye,
V-J day, Japan's spirit died.

World...

World War II had come to a close,
All was at peace, or so it seemed,
A war of coldest hatred began,
leading to no world peace, but world hatred.

Cold War,
Marxism,
Spread of Communism,
Animal Farm,
McCarthyism,
The Crucible,
Korea,
Vietnam,
Persian Gulf,
Desert Storm,
9-11,
Afghanistan,
Iraq.

Modern war, no different, merely the same.