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photo Wikimedia Commons
American troops on board a landing craft heading for the beaches at Oran in Algeria during Operation ‘Torch’, November 1942
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Passing Through
Golden Gate
shadow arms
ocean and steel
ships of souls
harbors deep waters
avenues of piers
city welcome
the blood of youth
dream eyes
fear beneath
bonds of courage
leaving behind
unknown ahead
swept emotions
follow the flag
hands to battle
names like salt
the season
of moving
forward without
question
brave complete
fortunate return
never forget
the willing
the lost
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by Roger Singer
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Dr. Roger Singer was in private practice for 38 years in upstate New York. He has four children, Abigail, Caleb, Andrew and Philip and seven grandchildren. Dr. Singer has served on multiple committees for the American Chiropractic Association, lecturing at colleges in the United States, Canada and Australia, and has authored over fifty articles for his profession and served as a medical technician during the Vietnam era. Dr. Singer is the Poet Laureate of Old Lyme, Connecticut. He has had over 1,070 poems published on the Internet, magazines and in books and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee. He is also the President of the Shoreline Chapter of the Connecticut Poetry Society.
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Listen to a 1944 recording of Jo Stafford singing Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin’s “Long Ago (And Far Away)”
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