grown men weeping

i watch

at the old folks home

for soldiers,

grown men

crying,

sitting in wheelchairs,

weeping

as they watch on television

the burning

of the American flag,

and the rising

of another

country's flag

on American soil.

the lives lost,

the battles for freedom,

the saving

of democracy,

the rows and rows

of white tombstones

at Arlington,

and around the world

marking heroic deaths,

and for what?

for this?

children playing at

terrorists.