One Day In June

Largest armada ever seen

on Normandy's beaches strewn

with the dead and dying

one day in June.

The year was forty-four

and there was little room

on the bloody beaches

one day in June.

Axis powers began a war

and now had sealed their doom

when ships and planes met

one day in June

Thousands came ashore

to end the conflict soon

freely meeting death there

one day in June.

Many transport ships

disgorged from their womb

fighting men to do battle

one day in June.

The sights and sounds

of ships guns that boom

wrecked havoc on shore

that day in June.

France soon set free

and on to Germany

with smell of cordite fume

in all the days of June.

The Battle of the Bulge

almost spelled the doom

of Patton's men

In those dark days of June!

But victory was meant to be

for all the allied Free

so poppies now bloom

over those who died in June.

©1/31/04 by C. Douglas Caffey