"THAT THING"
WWII...D-DAY 6 JUNE 1942
"That Thing" kept turning up
around my writing desk and
here and there and everywhere
and I scooted it around.
outta the way ad infinitum...
What it was and where it
came from no one seemed
to know and even BE
tidying up my Place said:
"What's this little silver
metal thing that's about
two inches long that's
always turning up around here?"
ThEN she...who sees better'n
me said: "Wait, there's
something stamped on it!"
"WHY IT'S D-DAY." she said.
"Just says D-Day."
And then I took it and I knew.
Then I clacked it several times
"clack-clack...clack--clack..."
and handed it back to her
and in respectful reverence said--
"You are holding a small and serious
of piece of history ...in your
hand---it is a duplicate of the
signaling clackers the
U.S. Airborne Division carried.
when they jumped into the
dark unknown night sky
over St. Mere Elise, France...
early morn...on D-Day."
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Our kids had visited Normandy
in April of 2019 and had
brought us this meaningful
souvenir from a museum
near the beach.
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MIL
20 JANUARY 2020
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