In remembrance of our Veterans - great poem

 I ran across the poem "Echoes from Off Samar" by Evan Hollis Crawforth a descendant of Jane Miles.  He was on the aircraft carrier St. Lo that was first major ship to be sunk by sunk by a kamikaze plane in the battle of Leyte Gulf off the Philippines. He was in the water for 23 hours.  He survived a wrote the poem. The last lines are:  

And yet, if they could speak, surely each would say,
"Do not let my sacrifice be forgotten.
If you cannot remember the loves that never came,
the children who never were, the dreams unfulfilled,
or the life unlived, at least remember my name."

"This one small thing, I ask of you!!"

You can read the poem in its entirety at click here.