No Place Like Home

Dorothy was right,

No place like home

For solders in fight

Against predators of the mainland 

For sweet homes,

By making the heroic flight

Against the treats and bombs.

For kids, border-battles are fun,

Until someone steps over the line.

It is not about to win the game

For the Hall of Fame.

I might be an aging baby boomer,

But I feel safe to know that the longest-flying bomber

Is an emblem of US military strength and calm

That demonstrated military actions,

Not once and twice, 

From Afghanistan to Vietnam,

And this is difficult to decline.

When people are far away from home,

Sometimes they cry -

"No place like home!"

This is way,

It is always on my mind:

Home, sweet home.

(Ida Tomshinsky@2024)