Excerpt of Memorial Day 2009 in Gurley, AL

May 24 2009 - Charles Stone Park, Gurley Alabama. Hotdogs and drinks sold proceeds for the Gurley Food Pantry. Honor our veterans.Mayor Stan Simpson, presentation of the veterans by Mary Ashby.


HIM I LOVED
By T. Sgt. R. V. Worden

This fools day in forty-five
I think of one did not survive
For he was twenty on this day,
I bow my head for I must pray.

I look back four year sor more
Of peaceful time before the war,
His kiddish smile, his rude brown hair,
His soft full voice, it all was there.

Of all the time we fished and hiked,
And all the things I knew he liked;
The way he worked to finish school,
All summer long, the golden rule.

Then in forty-three it came,
His country called to start to train.
In this, too, he drove ahead
And nursed the knowledge that he had.

And yet a call far greater came
Which he answered just the same.
For this call he gave his life
Gave our peace on earth its right.

AS I bow my head today
Tis for those I like him I pray
That we still live and carry on
Til our lasting peace is won.

Mary Ashbys Uncle T. Sgt. R. V. Worden wrote this poem for his younger brother Raymond who died at the age of 19.

Recorded and edited by D. G. Schneider, Gurley Lions Club Secretary

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