Memorial Day 2006 - The Endless Funeral Procession

The endless bloodshed and funerals washing over America is not even being noticed by the average American, and most who do notice turn away and try to forget. This is the price we are paying and the ongoing grief we are experiencing.


This is the new flash media presentation from Jay Shaft and the Coalition
For Free Thought In Media

Thank you to Cryptome.org and the Arlington National Cemetery websites for providing many of the pictures used in the video.

Link to page http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/05/1825712.php

By Jay Shaft
© 2005 Jay Shaft/CFTM© 2006
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00136.htm

As we collectively bow our heads in mourning
we all wear our funeral raiment and cloaks of grieving.

We would not have to remember you
in past tense if not for a senseless and seemingly endless war.

You carried a rifle
for an entire grateful nation
you carried the flag
on your shoulder
for all of us
you did your duty
not just for yourself
but an entire mourning country
as we gather to remember
your senseless passing.

It seems we all wear black
and all the time now
so often flags are folded
as collectively we bow
our heads and cry,
red and white of roses
takes on our mourning poses
we see you fall screaming
on far flung battlefield
and wonder WHY?

It seems so senseless,
the grind of battle relentless
we mourn not once but every
time another soldier dies
we gather reeling,
at your flag draped coffin
a scene repeated all too often
we see you die and feel so numb,
but the blows of senseless death
do not ever lessen or soften.

We gather to mourn in repetition
not every week, now it's every day
pain without respite or rest
the tragic news hits us
with no buffer or delay
no time to catch our breath
or gasp again in horrified shock
our grieving becomes all encompassing
the increasing onslaught of bodies
a bright white agony of loss.

Every day another of our children
comes off the mortuary plane
in flag wrapped silence
the honor guards footsteps
echo in lockstep thunderously
as they bear the ceremonially
shrouded boxes of squared steel
we cry bitter, salty tears
till the tracks mark and stain
our faces with permanent pain.

While the sun shines brightly
on your gleaming polished coffin
we know you have forever
lost the light, and slipped so far
from living comfort, mortal graces
while we prepare to attend
another fallen son or daughter's
solemn tribute, the bugles echo still
from the last soldier's entombment.

The sound of the 21-gun volleys
become a never ending crescendo
the pipers mourning wailing dirge
becomes a mocking, never ceasing
blackened tarnished battle hymn
and the news received today
was nothing new, the tragedy being
more dead is not an isolated
terrible nightmare, but a new felt
daily sense of mind numbing reality.

As the reddened sun sets
on another awful day
our much used mourning clothes
are hung with great care
not to be put up
for distant time of need
but to wear again
tomorrow at the next gathering
in the endless parade
of loss and mourning.

The loss is now
a daily grim occupation
of tears and grief
without sign of any relief
no respite for the weary
no relaxation to remember
our much loved dead
just another day of marching
with eyes streaming, tears gleaming
in the endless funeral procession.

© 2005 Jay Shaft/© 2006 Coalition For Free Thought In Media
CONTACT JAY SHAFT AND COALITION FOR FREE THOUGHT IN MEDIA @ coalitionforfreethoughtinmedia@yahoo.com

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[CFTMEDITOR]

I was the one who made the video, and I am not preying on anyones pain or sacrifice.

I lost some relatives and a lot of very close friends that I was working with after they had served in Iraq.

One of my best friend's funerals is in this video. I still mourn for him and all the others I knew who never came back home. I mourn for all those I didn't know too.

I don't feel I desecrated anyone. How? Many of the ones I knew came home and comitted suicide. This is to wake up the American's.

[RHall518]

35,000 Americans killed in the first year of WWII and the nation stood as one. Today, we've lost our will, our spine and our guts. This nation has become a nation of whiners and armchair military advisors. God bless those who died protecting us. -U.S. Navy Veteran (8 years serice)

[PaintballRush222]

@Corlone74 People tend to say things about troops, about the war when they don't understand it. they'll put it down and trash it... but they've never looked into the eyes of a veteran.

[mitchisok]

So much respect to all the soldiers ad families in this video.

[sparky41684]

i hope bush and his entire family and whos evers dumb idea to go in iraq, i hope they die slow and i hope they feel every thing these guys whent trough

[gonuclear98]

Is that neuter scar still itching?

[Corlone74]

There will always be those who choose to sit back and enjoy the liberties of this land and what it stands for....But to truly understand it,Get up put on a uniform and live it....Then u can make the comments that most of you ppl make,Your right to think,eat, worship & just to be free is earned on the backs & blood of others.Like myself i did my time served for 20 yrs & two tours in Iraq,I would go back in a second if i could....If my going back would save the life of one,Then i did my job!!!!

[cowboybill117]

They died so that kids like you can post how usless you feel our troops are. If you are typing on in English Thank a teacher, Thank a solider for the freedom to freedom to do so.

[rsracer118]

our kid should not be brought up with use fighting all the time because they are just kids they wont understand we need to stop this no just for us but for our kids so many have already dead for what

[TsumeBeta038]

Damn Right he will man