The ones who sacrificed

((It's memorial day, and we honor veterans as well on this day. I'm part of the Army JROTC and I wrote this thinking of our vets))

Holidays will never come,
for those who died after they won.

The Veterans.

Plagued with memories of falls foes, comrades too,
like children in Vietnam or Nazi of Germany long gone.

"Nothing's free" Someone once said,
Something much be give to recieve it in turn.

sacrifice normal life,
for a world filled with strife.

The veterans live and die
the family cries.

their legends live on,
never forgotten.

The ones who live, the ones who gave up everything.


The veterans.

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I fixed it. Still keeping like children though. It fits for me when I read it out loud ^.^. Yea, As many that hang out there I was surprised.

Hi there! I'm April. I love how you wrote this in honor of the veterans; it's so sweet. But I do have some nit- picks...

About the title. You spelled "sacraficed" wrong. It is sacrificed. An I not an A. :)

Plaqued with memories of falls foes, comrades too,


"Plaqued" should be "plagued". I think that's what you meant, but if you didn't, you should still change that to plagued. It fits better and there isn't such a word as "plaqued".

like children in vietnam or nazi of germany long gone.


I think the "like" in the beginning of that line should be changed to "as". Also, you need to capitalize Vietnam, Nazi, and Germany. They are names of places, and need to be capitalized, dear. :)

"Nothings free"Someone once said,


"Nothings" should be "Nothing's". Because it is a conjunction of Nothing and is. An apostrophe needs to be where the "i" would normally be. Also, you forgot to put a space between the quotation mark and "someone".

Scrafice normal life,


Sacrifice, dear. ;)

their legend live on,
not forgotten.


Either legend or live needs to have an "s" at the end :P. Also, I think "not forgotten" should be "never forgotten".

Over- all;

Lovely poem! Just some punctuation and spelling issues, mostly. Hope to see you around more! :D

~April



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