today and tomorrow/May 25

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

For my Uncle Elwood Duncan.
Joined the Army at 18.  Was in the Pacific when Pearl Harbor came.  Survived years in a Japanese Prison Camp.  Returned to live a troubled and shortened life.   Remembered and loved as handsome and young.

2020
. . . a historic event that buries our individual, personal histories.  How unimaginable that our deaths could go unremarked on . . .