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LONG MAY SHE WAVE
By, Ellen Williams
Written on the occasion of the June 26th Dedication of the
I-65 Battle Flag with gratitude to the Alabama Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans
with an special thanks you to Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Wyatt Willis whose tenacity
and devotion saw
this project through.
Slowly and deliberately she rose with every eye on her, and when she reached
the top of her magnificent 110 ft. pole to take her place of honor once
again in the Heart of Dixie, grown men had glistening eyes and ladies bit their lips
to stop the
trembling; children were simply overawed with her size and beauty.
God smiled upon her magnificence and upon those gathered
to pay her honor for a brisk wind rippled her Cross and stars as she
took her place along a busy interstate; and a cloud-cover shielded from the
hot June sun, descendants of those brave men who paid for her
with their last full
measure of devotion.
For we have not forgotten her in this state; and there were
children there who now understand "who they are and from whence they came
and for what she stands," who in future years will continue the good
fight that she
never be forgotten.
She reaches up toward Heaven where surely Jefferson Davis
and Generals Lee, Jackson, Forrest, A. P. Hill, John B. Gordon, the gallant Pelham
and the martyr Sam Davis and others, surely raised their hats in salute to her.
And in the distance was a ghostly Rebel Yell from that rag-tag
army of starved,
bare-footed heroes who know that we have NOT forgotten.
She is our symbol "set on a high hill" to give light and truth
to all who see her.
LONG MAY SHE WAVE.
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