Ben Grader's Channel

Time passes.

The time goes by; summer is gone too soon

and once again September comes around;

numbers have dwindled fast and few are left

the stripling youths of sixty years ago

are now old men whose years are nearly done,

we too will soon be dust and buried deep.

Our youths today no longer seem to care

but still in Oosterbeek each year, they mourn

and yet our countrymen, whose family’s blood

was shed, have all too soon forgotten it.

Material acquisition fills their minds

so was the sacrifice our comrades made