They’re too young now to remember

The hostages who died on planes

That Mychal Judge was there

As they fell from the sky in New York

Rumsfeld helping in the fire and rubble of Arlington

Todd Beamer "Let's Roll"

The heroes of Shanksville

A reckoning at Tora Bora delayed

Until Abbottobad

Too young to remember

The buses and trains

Of London and Spain

The slaughter of innocents

At Beslan

The music silenced

At Manchester

And the Bataclan

An inept shoe bomber

Changed the way we dress to fly

Too young to remember

Our pride in Pat Tillman

Sadness for Danny Pearl

Disgust for an American Taliban

A truck in Nice

The 9364 from Amsterdam

The shooter of Fort Hood

The Butcher of Baghdad

The desperation of Benghazi

But  I  remember

As they’re falling from the sky in Kabul

As hostages are held on planes again

As our finest are murdered at the airport

And others hunted on Afghan streets

That Johnny Spann died at Mazar-I Sharif

¹¹ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

¹² For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Ecclesiastes 9:11,12