Patriotic American Poems
The Silent Ranks
by Robin Jones
I wear no uniforms,
No blues or army greens.
But I am in the military
In the ranks rarely seen.
I have no rank upon my shoulders.
Salutes
I do not give.
But the military world
Is the place where I live.
I am not in the chain of command,
Orders I do not get.
But my husband is
the one who does,
this I cannot forget.
I am not the ones who fires the weapon,
who puts my life on the line.
But my job is just as tough.
I am the one that is left behind.
My husband is a patriot,
A brave, a prideful man
And the call to serve his country,
Not all understand.
Behind the lines I see the things needed
to keep this country free.
My husband makes the sacrifice,
but so do our kids and me.
I love the
man I married,
Soldiering is his life.
But I stand among the silent ranks
know as the Military Wife
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