"At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border" by William Stafford

The poem is a contribute to the unrecognized monument, the fields of wars and battles. That very monument is the battlefield that was back then fought on, it represented all the lives lost, it was the land that people fought for...and now it is just silent plain land...that seems to be forgotten, or not important because it is already won. This very land may not be the place of battle, but it was the land that people fought for...and yet we commemorate very little to it.

In a way this poem serves as the recognition and memorial to something that otherwise would be forgotten...and has without this poem.