Remembrance Parade in Loughgall 10/11/24

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War Poem Where each poppy did fall does a soldier lay for each soul now passed we should pause and pray though many would be the prayers as each flower was a soul and at wars end will then list those lost by the call of the roll of battle grounds that rise and fall soldiers still rest there so at peace now with others unknown be they fallen friends or foe Past ghosts I now walk through those poppies red I feel them there but nothings is said though i sense they do then ask why of me that no future will their family lives now see friend or foe were family men and all will bear their scar as war is hell and a fight for peace is a better way by far though they are at peace their spirits said as to the light they must then gently tread so many comrades did walk with them that day and are such killing fields man's only way they came to fight for freedom for others, True! but to win the fight for peace is now left to you all may find your history and why now here you lay and of your battles end you suffered upon that fateful day I read all the names and wonder what if of their missing life if those were not then lost by a time of war and strife i would know of their passing but know not their face these heroes side by side that now rest in a peaceful place time has not forgotten them by the rows of marble white as now they onward to a glory walk to a heavens light i softly speak the names of those comrades that lay now at your side and are heard again on earth and will forever with you abide though not your home where you were born and by War no longer see but will regard with honour this place your Country and thus now always be as I turned to this passing soldier though his light seemed dim then realised i was also a ghost and i walk this path with him Poem by Ironmonger