Thank you to all of our veterans, living and dead.
Posted by Chicago Boyz Archive on November 11th, 2011 (All posts by Chicago Boyz Archive)
The Statler Brothers, Silver Medals and Sweet Memories
God bless America.
Just a picture on a table
Just some letters Mama saved
And a costume broach from England
On the back it has engraved:
To Eileen, I love you
London, nineteen forty-three.
And she never heard from him again
And he never heard of me
And the war still ain’t over for Mama
Every night in her dreams she still sees
The young face of someone who left her
Silver medals and sweet memories
In Mama’s bedroom closet
To this day on her top shelf
There’s a flag folded three-cornered
Layin’ all by itself
And the sargeant would surely be honored
To know how pretty she still is
And that after all these lonely years
His Eileen’s still his
And the war still ain’t over for Mama….
Silver medals and sweet memories
November 11th, 2011 at 8:55 pm
For those who haven’t already seen/heard this…
the war was in color