With all the rants going on lately, I thought I'd share a sombering thought with the community.
While checking on some aviation print prices, I noticed a print of a lone M4 Sherman sitting on a hill. Amazingly, there's a story behind this lone Sherman:
"This painting and poem is based on a photograph that was taken in 1974 of a 2nd Armored Division Sherman tank in a field between Magoster and Beffe, Belgium. It was a casualty of the 2nd SS-Panzerdivision in the Ardenne in January of 1945."
The poem reads.....
"By this fence near a quiet wood,
I sit alone where once I stood,
Beside my brothers in a row;
As Panzers attacked from the treeline below.
The farmland echoed the sound of war,
Where only peace had been before,
And here where things are meant to grow,
I fought and fell in blood-stained snow.
The years since then have drifted by,
I rust away beneath the sky,
In a country free from Hitler's reign,
My sacrifice was not in vain."
How easy is it for society to forget the sacrifices made by our men and women in the service to our county. Past, present, and in the future!
(I guess this maybe was a rant too.)
