Do they remember?
Can they recall
The freedom of the sky,
The thrill of flight,
The chaos of the battle?

Do they remember those who flew?
Brave men and brave women
Living, breathing, flying, dying,
All in the name of liberty and love,
Rendering their “last full measure of devotion.”

Do they remember?
These silent storytellers
Telling us of a different time:
The time of daring missions flown
While death reigned in the skies.

Do they remember?
Those icons of a long-ago war.
“A war to end all wars,” they said,
Though fighting continues still…
The children flying in their stead.

Locked within four walls now,
No longer can they taste the sky.
To fly, none are left to do:
All are gone, like whispers on the wind…
Do they remember?

A/N: The quote is from the "Gettysburg Address": the poem, about an old WWI plane seen in a museum.