A plume of charred and shot souls, black and grey,
Searching for proof if God left or stayed
That was what happened
When it was D-Day.
I remember the day, crystal clear.
“Hitler Dead!”, a unified cheer.
Soldiers alive and dead, forever gone,
The battlefield was finally left forlorn.
An international celebration
Hip Hip Hooray!
As April ended,
so began our merriest day.
However, sometimes I wonder
what it was all for.
Was the killing for the sake of peace,
Or was it for the sake of war?
At the end of the day
Why do we revel? Other than for the sake of
A landscape peppered with shells
And about 5.3 million Nazis burning in hell.
Photo: John Patrick Waylett, great, great grandfather of student Olivia Baker, who served in the First World War.