Michael Jerling
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A Boy On Memorial Day
© 2013 by Michael JerlingFrom the album Halfway Home
When Ethan was born the video shows
His proud mother counted his fingers and toes
Eight pounds, twelve ounces the birth notice read
Little League, prom night, working nights part-time
Making his own way
If you weren't there then you don't know
If you weren't there then you don't know
When I was a boy on Memorial Day
The old men in uniform led the parade
A ragged formation, the heavy flag high
Such unlikely heroes, the guy from the drugstore
Making his own way
If you weren't there then you don't know
If you weren't there then you don't know
When Ethan was born the video shows
His proud mother counted his fingers and toes
And when he returned home from the war
She thankfully counted them just as before
But something was different, something was wrong
He kept drifting farther, farther and farther
Making his own way
If you weren't there then you don't know
If you weren't there then you don't know
Twenty-four years old the article read
It mentioned his service, but no cause of death
A ragged formation the heavy flag high
Such unlikely heroes, the kid from the drugstore
Making his own way
