Day of Silence

Dedicated to Sgt. Andrew K. Farrar Killed in Iraq on his 31st birthday just a few weeks before he was to return to his wife and family.

A line of black marches on hallowed ground.
The pipes call out to him
Though he cannot hear.
The pipes play a tune he holds dear.
A tune all can hear.

We lost a brother on that day.
We honored him as the pipes did play.
His boys close, so young, so cute.
All silent for the twenty-one gun salute.

He lies just six feet away.
I swell up with tears.
For this is the thing I did fear.
The pipes played loud and proud on that silent day.
If only you had been there as the pipes did play.

by Dan T.

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