Posted by Brad Osborne on May 17, 2023 · 15 Comments
They did not contemplate,
That it would be this night…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 28, 2022 · 17 Comments
There is nothing more honorable,
Then being of service to another…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 20, 2021 · 14 Comments
Fate hangs in azure strung long,
A narrow and harrowed path…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 8, 2021 · 17 Comments
Oh, mercy lay your hands on me
A wretched soul not yet set free
Proud soldier with unbent knee
A good death is all I beg of thee
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 31, 2021 · 17 Comments
And in dawn’s growing light,
Was heard the bugle’s blare…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 17, 2021 · 17 Comments
We are the sons and daughters,
Of a proud and vibrant nation…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 11, 2021 · 19 Comments
Do not let my calm demeanor,
Make you for a minute think,
That I am not a man of purpose…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 3, 2021 · 24 Comments
They call it “the People’s House”,
But only politicians call it home…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 25, 2020 · 18 Comments
Forged within that stringent heat,
A different man is willful raised…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on October 17, 2020 · 14 Comments
The red ink of history written,
Drips long from the blades of man…
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