"CLACK..CLACK...CLACK..WE CAME...AND DIED"

A D-DAY CLACKER AND OMAHA BEACH ROCK 

The rock   gathered from the "Omaha"

   Normandy Beach seventy-five

years later     has been laved

   by the waves of the sea for 

years and worn down  as has been 

   a weary world    tired of wars

and  men dying on lonely beaches

   and battlefields, barely after life

has begun for them...thousands

   from the beaches of Normandy,

D-DAY 1944  many buried nearby

   where the poppies grow

row-on-row...forever resting in 

            fields of honor...

And the clackers carried by the 

   U.S. 101st parachutists who jumped

into the dark French midnight 

   over St. Mere Eglise...into

               The Unknown

as then they clacked each other 

   in the hedgerows..."I'm 101st.."

can be bought by tourists  and

    little French kids...listen

as they play..."Click,click clack,"

   but the clickers are saying today---

"We came, we came...we came

      and died here for freedom...
Once again....