Saluting the ghosts on the beach
Is something you just can’t teach
You must have experienced it
Memories a lifetime ago you don’t forget 

Dad was 100 when he went back
Hadn’t been to Omaha since d day that’s a fact
Spent a lifetime trying to heal
No one but another d day veteran had the same feel 

Dad was 20 when the ramp opened
Stepped into a sea of red
Dad almost drowned 
But he made it to the beach instead

Dad would never talk about what he’d seen
But at 90 he began to talk
He’d stay up night after night
Wanted to tell my brother even while he was in his cell block

It was like the flood gates opened
All the emotions and pain came out
What d day 1944 was like
He talked so much about it I thought he’d burn out

Finally at 100 dad knew 
he didn’t have much time left
He made the decision to go back 
He dug out his uniform that had been in his war chest

Hand and hand my dad and I
Walked the beach of Omaha one day
Dad stood at attention
And saluted his long dead brothers whom paved the way 



****never forget the sacrifices made by our world war 2 veterans for they are the reason we walk a path of freedom today……

WB KSG