On Veterans Day: A Tribute to Our Heroes

A tribute to our brave veterans - a poem.

On this Veterans Day 2025,
Countless Americans honor
The service men and women
Whose tremendous sacrifice
And courage have conveyed
The ultimate strength, commitment,
And valor to our nation’s safety,
Prosperity, pride, and dignified scope.

Recruitment has focused on the poise
Of constricting diplomacy and imploding gravity.
Methods of involvement are thoroughly
Questioned for humankind’s
Righteous impunity. 
There appears a heightened disregard
For denigrated and hopelessly at risk populations
And religious communities of legitimate worship.
The earthly signals of an advantageous
And possible end to wars are coming to light;
And the survivors of the most grossly cruel battles
Of mental and physical shape and tone
Are relying on resiliency, reciprocity, togetherness,
And acceptance…

Our brave and needy veterans
Must continue to further
The accountability
Of the foremost citizenry.
Scarred vets of past, present, and current
Scenarios of embattled and soon-to-be
Enlightened prosperity, caring, and vision
Shall seek a new nexus
And a glowing, subjective aura.
A meritorious model of authority
Less taxing and humbling;
And a much more gratifying
And triumphant vehicle
For our awesome service men and women’s
Kind and deserving souls…

Against the backdrop of freedom’s highest peaks -
The status of enduring national pride.
Recapturing the dawn of America’s
Religious and noble sentiments
And supreme ideals.