[EternalVigilance]

To Bob Hope:

So long, Bob
You never knew me
But I knew you

And yet, somehow
You did know me

Otherwise, how could you have known
How to make me smile
To make me laugh
Over and over again
My whole life

You represented me
By caring about our American boys overseas
And putting feet to your caring

Not everyone gets the honor
Of putting on a uniform
Of putting their life
Out on the firing line

But you represent all of us who can't
But who find some way to show
What it is to be a patriot
Uniform or not

If you aren't in heaven, buddy
I'm not sure I want to go there

Tom Hoefling

[Sundog]

Thanks for the poem.

It got a few tears out of me when I heard that this morning.