With Veterans Day coming up, I was thinking about the loss that so many families feel when their loved ones come home in a casket. The mix of pride and loss is real. This is a photograph taken at a National Cemetery. I tried to show how many have served by capturing a sea of tombstones, and a mother or wife, there mourning. Let us honor and remember the sacrifice of all who have served.

Pronounce warrior as 2 syllables.

This poem is a Lyricat,
Congratulations are due for a newly invented verse form by I am Cat, a fellow FanStorian, which she calls a LyriCat (See 'Refreshing My Soul', posted on 29 October).

A LyriCat has a syllable count of:
7, 5, 5 , 5, 5, 5, 9, 5,
and the rhyme scheme of each individual stanza is:
a, b, c, b, d, e, F, e.
No set rhythm is prescribed. It has a 3 stanza minimum and the 9 syllable line (F) in each stanza is a repeating line.

The author's photograph.

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