The Ever-Loving Virgin Prince
Monday, December 15, 2003
A Poem For Gramps
Grandfather
I was thinking about the war today
the second world war
the one you served in
How amazing it must have been
serving under General Patton in Easy Company
fighting in North Africa against Irwin Rommel
holding that hill, staving off German forces
your company all broken and still around you
All those promotions turned down to stay
with “Wildman”, the history teacher
“Four-Eyes”, the bespectacled sharpshooter
“Little Sure Shot”, the hard fighting native
your right hand man, “Bulldozer”
the combat happy joes of Easy
What was it like
in the European Theatre of Operations
fighting hand to hand
with the steel-fisted Iron Major?
You wouldn’t know
Sgt. Rock did all that
you spent the war on an island
I was thinking about the war today
the second world war
the one you served in
How amazing it must have been
serving under General Patton in Easy Company
fighting in North Africa against Irwin Rommel
holding that hill, staving off German forces
your company all broken and still around you
All those promotions turned down to stay
with “Wildman”, the history teacher
“Four-Eyes”, the bespectacled sharpshooter
“Little Sure Shot”, the hard fighting native
your right hand man, “Bulldozer”
the combat happy joes of Easy
What was it like
in the European Theatre of Operations
fighting hand to hand
with the steel-fisted Iron Major?
You wouldn’t know
Sgt. Rock did all that
you spent the war on an island
