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FLPanhandle

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1. RIP sailors.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Fri Jan 29, 2016, 03:15 PM

Jan 2016

Sailing Home

Rest, our Salty Sailor, for now ye are home.

No more to wander, no more to ponder,
no farther on earth to roam.

Your bones groan no more, your heart no longer thirsts,
for sailing fair seas you will forever be,
sleeping aloft in our Lord's sweet berth.

Gone from us you are, but never very far,
for in our minds and hearts you are, forever sailing home.

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German WWI U-boat found after 100 years missing at sea [View all] Omaha Steve Jan 2016 OP

RIP sailors. FLPanhandle Jan 2016 #1

Nice poem. Thanks. nt ladjf Jan 2016 #5

Original Prose? The River Jan 2016 #6

Not mine FLPanhandle Jan 2016 #7

Found it The River Jan 2016 #9

WWII scscholar Jan 2016 #2

No one said it was - the title reads "WWI" (nt) muriel_volestrangler Jan 2016 #3

WWII wasn't GummyBearz Jan 2016 #4

Nah, not that war. cwydro Jan 2016 #10

Sea Mines Warfare 1914 � 1918 Donkees Jan 2016 #8

Kick Omaha Steve Jan 2016 #11