Always faithful,
Just saw best video TikToc today,
Old soldier from past war,
Standing at parade rest,
Then snapping into a salute,
Recalling in heart and spirit,
Falling K9 friend,
Honor,
Faith,
Duty,
Country,
My grand dad Paul John Andrew Heike was in France,
WWI,at Flanders First Sargent Medical Corp.
Grand dad’s detail was to remove dead and injured,
Comrades from the trenches,
Nineteen forty-six Leon Norbert Heike,
Son of a soldier and a courageous Yiddish lady who married a Lutheran minister’s son,
It was end of WWII,
Dad and his company.were sent in after the bombing of Heroshima,
In nineteen seventy-eight,
Fort Jackson,S.C. in class A’s I stood,
Graduate into the USARMY,
That soldiers love,
Faith,
Honor runs deep in the heart of America,
Semphi!