My heart has weptWords wont ever doThe cost of freedomWhat it meant to lose you Value is placedOn pictures and songsStocks and savingsOther things Continue Reading
The Price of Communism | Honoring Vietnam Veterans
August 12th 1998 was the time Linh Duy Vo wrote these words to my late husband. “For America, Love and Gratitude. Dennis and Diana Nickell, YOU ARE Continue Reading
The Cost
Bombs and bulletsDestruction and morePaving the way to a living hell's door You were asked to goAsked to fightProtecting those both near and farall Continue Reading
Incomprehensible
Creator of heaven and earthDesigner of the cosmosArchitect of the ancient gatesWanted you Beauty beyond compareMillions of cells, systems we don’t Continue Reading
If You’re Breathing… There’s Hope
If you're breathing There’s hope If you only awoke Theres’s hope No matter how deep No matter how dark The skies have Continue Reading
Wilson your Harley
Wilson your HarleyRode safe and road trueThe happiest place for me and for youI snuggled my armsHugged with my thighsWinds kissed our cheeksI closed Continue Reading
Grief
Tears rolling down my cheeksCurled in fetal position… hiding in my roomMy pillow covers the sobs that escape and almost three years laterI hear myself Continue Reading
Memorial Day: Win This Battlefield of Life
You are made in the image of YWHNo matter what you have done, experienced or failed atYou could not be more lovedMemorial DayThe Day to consider the Continue Reading
Friendly Fire
by Diana Nickell, wife of Vietnam combat veteran, Dennis Nickell Do you really think Anyone cares That the fire that burns… is Continue Reading
Communion
Have you dipped your hand in the dish? Knowing the one who shared your dish would betray you? Lovingly, forgivingly looking into the eyes so Continue Reading
Don’t Do It
I see you I feel you I love you Never give in Too much power to give the lies Joy comes in the morning Always darkest before Continue Reading
Do You Not Know Who You Are?
YOU my love… Are His.creation Your LIFE? Is HIS story Lost your way? Never fear, HE has this Written in the palm of HIS hand Created Continue Reading