This is my Uncle Billy's gravestone at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. He did paratroop into France on D-day and fought his was to Berlin with the US Third Infantry. He was never wounded. When he came home, he became a fireman in the Richfield, Minnesota, Fire Department. I can tell many stories about Uncle Billy, but maybe some other time. He died in 2006 at the age of 85.

This poem is a Trijan Refrain.
The Trijan Refrain, created by Jan Turner, consists of three 9-line stanzas, for a total of 27 lines. Line 1 (A1) is the same in all three stanzas. The first four syllables of line 5 in each stanza are repeated as the double-refrain for lines 7 and 8. The Trijan Refrain is a rhyming poem with a set meter and rhyme scheme as follows:

Rhyme scheme: A1/b/a/b/c/c/R/R/c ,
where A1 is the repeated line, and R is the first 4 word from line 5,

Meter: 8/6/8/6/8/8/4/4/8

This picture was taken by the author himself on May 25, 2015.

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