Remember Them

Remember Them

If you are able,
save for them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.


Major Michael O'Donnell: MIA 24 March 1970, Cambodia
Declared dead after missing: 7 February 1978
Remains repatriated: 12 April 1995
Remains identified: 20 June 2001

IllustrationFriday.com

This week's topic on IllustrationFriday.com is "Fearless". I read the topic and thought, "didn't we just do this?", and as you can see from the previous post, it is similar to the last topic that I did which was "brave". I started this two weeks ago for the topic "ahead" but never finished it. I guess it could work for this week's topic, at any rate, I didn't want to waste it.

Rendering was done in Manga Studio Debut 4 with colors completed in Corel Painter 11 and Photoshop CS5. All pencils, inks, and colors were rendered on a Wacom Cintiq.