In
Honor of My Grandpa, Jerome J. Einck
On
His 95th Birthday
June
6, 2014
As our country honors veterans
Each year on June the 6th,
I raise my flag to a special man
Who has my heart transfixed.
With many men in '44
He took the beach by storm.
Defending his country with all that
he had
On the day that he was born.
He turned 25 on the beach that day.
He left his mark on the world.
As a very, young man with a long
life ahead,
The war around him unfurled.
At night, so I hear, by candlelight,
He wrote letters to Grandma back
home.
While holding her photograph close
to his heart,
He signed them "with my love,
Jerome."
After the war, with my Grandmother's
hand,
He lived his life with ambition.
Farming and working and building a
life
And watching it come to fruition.
With a gentle hand and a tender
heart,
Along with discipline,
He raised four daughters (one was my
mom).
His love was genuine.
The man that I know, is much more
than that -
I know him as "Grandpa
Einck".
He's a man who is humble (and likes
to play "Tic")
And is very gentleman-like.
I find I relate to some of his ways
As I aim to fill his shoes -
With his quiet disposition
And his love for all things blue.
As time goes on his family, now
Spreads generations - four!
With grandkids – eight, great
grandkids – twelve,
And someday maybe more.
My hope is that our family
Can fulfill his legacy -
To each be the type of person
That my Grandpa is to me!
