In memory of the men of the United States Armed Forces who
lost their lives in the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor
Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday December 7, 1941.
"You are gone from this earth, but you will never be forgotten."
God gave my son in trust to me;
Christ died for him, and he should be
A man for Christ. He is his own,
And God's and man's; not mine alone.
He was not mine to "give". He gave
Himself that he might help save
All that a Christian should revere
All that enlightened men hold dear.
"To feed the guns!" O torpid soul!
Awake, and see life as a whole,
When freedom, honor, justice, right,
Were threatened by the despot's might;
With heart aflame and soul alight
He bravely went for God to fight
Against base savages, whose pride
The laws of God and man defied,
Who slew the mother and her child,
Who maidens pure and sweet defiled;
He did not go "to feed the guns."
He went to save from ruthless Huns
His home and country, and to be
A guardian of democracy.
Excerpt from the poem,
"My Son"
James D. Hughes
"Greater love has no one than this,
that he lay down his life for his friends."
(John 15:13)
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