Across the open sea, through raging waters, they sailed,

They were the King’s army, they thought they would prevail.

Believing to be superior over the common man,

An ego much too large when they stormed our shores.

Redcoats, and Dragoons, charged upon us to take freedom away,

Everywhere, flashes in the night but we would not turn and run.

A flag of colors, red, white, and blue, waved through many

Days and nights of bloody fight.

Torn, dirty, and burned, it would not disappear,

Throughout the Winter cold, and into the Summer heat,

Our men battled, Families suffered and sacrificed for

what seemed to be an eternity.

Beyond the smoke, for so long, flashes in the night,

We stood our ground, We saw the morning light.

Keith Garrett