100,000 shells
Beside the tide
Turned red
100,000 shells
Not sea shells
But ammunition
Of various
ordinances;
Small arms,
machine guns,
Mortars and
artillery
Try to imagine
100,000 shells
Raining down on
the beach
Per minute
During the
Normandy invasion
On Omaha beach,
Try to imagine
Wading through
such fire
In order to
survive
One minute of such a war
Is all any human
being
Would ever need to
see
One minute of such a war
Is more than any
human being
Would ever want to
see
One minute on the
D-day beach
Is all that any
would have to see
To understand
The living hell
Of war.
