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Mark as Offensive 11/5/2009 5:38:21 PM |
it was a txt tht came with a picture of a military person...
You stay up for 16 hours. He stays up for days on end. You take a warm shower to help you wake up. He goes weeks without running water. You complain of a 'headache' and call in sick. He gets shot at as others are hit, and keeps moving forward. You talk trash about your buddies that aren't with you. He knows he may never see any of his ever again. You complain about how hot it is. He wears his heavy gear, not daring to take off his helment to wipe his forehead. You get mad at the waiter for getting your order wrong. He doesmn't get to eat today. Your mad that your class got 5 minutes over. He is told he will be held over an extra 2 months. You roll your eyes when your baby cries. He gets a letter with pictures of his new baby, and wonders if they'll ever meet...
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Mark as Offensive 11/5/2009 7:03:46 PM |
its a crazy world where you can go out a hero and come back a stranger, or not come back at all.
we of the western culture take so much for granted, and forget the rivers of blood our world is built on.
i cant see any way to stop the madness of war......... maybe no-one can ....... perhaps the best we can do is be thankful for what our soldiers do for us.
both my brothers are in the forces............ im really scared that theyll end up hurt/changed etc.........
*for li* by andrea gibson
Eli came back from Iraq
and tattooed a teddy bear onto the inside of his wrist
above that a medic with an IV bag
above that an angel
but Eli says the teddy bear won't live
and I know I don't know but I say, "I know"
cause Eli's only twenty-four and I've never seen eyes
further away from childhood than his
eyes old with a wisdom
he knows I'd rather not have
Eli's mother traces a teddy bear onto the inside of my arm
and says, "not all casualties come home in body bags"
and I swear
I'd spend the rest of my life writing nothing
but the word light at the end of this tunnel
if I could find the f***ing tunnel
I'd write nothing but white flags
somebody pray for the soldiers
somebody pray for what's lost
somebody pray for the mailbox
that holds the official letters
to the mothers,
''''''''''''''fathers,
''''''''''''''''''''sisters,
and little brothers
of Micheal 19... Steven 21... John 33
how ironic that their deaths sound like bible verses
the hearse is parked in the halls of the high school
recruiting black, brown and poor
while anti-war activists
outside walter reed army hospital scream
100, 000 slain
as an amputee on the third floor
breathes forget-me-nots onto the window pain
but how can we forget what we never knew
our sky is so perfectly blue it's repulsive
somebody tell me where god lives
cause if god is truth god doesn't live here
our lies have seared the sun too hot to live by
there are ghosts of kids who are still alive
touting M16s with trembling hands
while we dream ourselves stars on Survivor
another missile sets fire to the face in the locket
of a mother who's son needed money for college
and she swears she can feel his photograph burn
how many wars will it take us to learn
that only the dead return
the rest remain forever caught between worlds of
shrapnel shatters body of three year old girl
to
welcome to McDonalds can I take your order?
the mortar of sanity crumbling
stumbling back home to a home that will never be home again
Eli doesn't know if he can ever write a poem again
one third of the homeless men in this country are veterans
and we have the nerve to Support Our Troops
with pretty yellow ribbons
while giving nothing but dirty looks to their outstretched hands
tell me what land of the free
sets free its eighteen-year-old kids into greedy war zones
hones them like missiles
then returns their bones in the middle of the night
so no one can see
each death swept beneath the carpet and hidden like dirt
each life a promise we never kept
Jeff Lucey came back from Iraq
and hung himself in his parents basement with a garden hose
the night before he died he spent forty five minutes on his fathers lap
rocking like a baby
rocking like daddy, save me
and don't think for a minute he too isn't collateral damage
in the mansions of washington they are watching them burn
and hoarding the water
no senators' sons are being sent out to slaughter
no presidents' daughters are l
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Mark as Offensive 11/5/2009 7:05:06 PM |
(oops, and the end of it)
no presidents' daughters are licking ashes from their lips
or dreaming up ropes to wrap around their necks
in case they ever make it home alive
our eyes are closed
america
there are souls in
the boots of the soldiers
america
f*** your yellow ribbon
you wanna support our troops
bring them home
and hold them tight when they get here
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circa_complacent
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Mark as Offensive 11/5/2009 8:49:19 PM |
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good poem. i dont' agree with the message, but good poem.
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pretty_in_pink1309
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Mark as Offensive 11/7/2009 3:45:03 AM |
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truely all soldiers are heroes. they help to keep us safe and we should all be thankful for that.. i have three friends in iraq and its hard..we should all thank them <3
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Mark as Offensive 11/7/2009 5:32:21 AM |
lols, kinda figures u wouldnt circa.........
its funny, in that one i dont even find much of an opinion, more a statement of a view on the truth.......
(not sure if i made sense just then)
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Mark as Offensive 11/7/2009 2:55:42 PM |
there is definite opinion
I like the quote that goes something like 'A true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.'
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whatboutyou?
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Mark as Offensive 11/7/2009 5:14:49 PM |
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i'd have to disagree with you. the truth is definitely not 'the war is bad soldiers should come home'..that's a definite opinion.
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whatboutyou?
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Mark as Offensive 11/7/2009 5:15:07 PM |
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i'm circa btw if you forgot.
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Mark as Offensive 11/8/2009 4:57:50 AM |
yeh.......i gathered the circa/wby thing :D
lols, ok, yeh, when you put it like that, there is an opinion........... but i guess i see that opinion as a statement of the truth.....
if you think the opinion is " the war is bad soldiers should come home" and you dont agree with that opinion, are you saying that you believe war is good??
sorry, im not meaning to sound, i dunno, um, critical or whatever. just kinda confused on that one.
i mean, i havnt got a solution to war in general, or even to any specific wars.........
oh god, i really dont know. i shouldnt even venture an opinion. im kept safe and i live in luxury, and its all provided on other peoples oppression and pain,
and my culture is fighting againstt hose that would wish to be free. and when they go out there, they believe that they are doing the right thing.
i just dont f*ing know...........
(sorry, war talk kinda pushes some buttons for me :/)
oh, i like the quote kilroy :D
i guess that what makes it so complicate though.......
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whatboutyou?
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Mark as Offensive 11/8/2009 10:41:02 AM |
'do i think war is good'.
yes. i think war is a sad event, but a necessary one.
i think war is not pretty, but it's the very thing that 'keeps you warm and kozy in your home'.
The fact that you agree with the 'opinion' would make it your opinion, not a stated fact. I'm not saying that the opinion i have, war being 'good', is a fact either.
War may push your buttons, but without the war you 'hate' so much, our lives, mine included, would be similar to the ones in Iraq that we are now trying to improve. Some look at Iraq and can't see past their selfish 'oh well a few Americans died' expressions. It is a complete tradegy that Americans die. By no means do i dishonor them with this statement. I hold them in the highest respect possible, and with that i feel the ones who benefit from their sacrifice who claim to understand and support them while telling them they are WRONG in fighting are simply dishonoring everything they stand for.
War is not pretty, and i dont' feel every war is justified. However, the current war, while possibly being carried out in 'wrong' methods at times, is not an example of an unjustified war. The American public wanted it, and the results are not pretty. Life isn't pretty, but that doesn't mean that anything 'unpretty' is bad. 'unpretty' things happen to preserve the 'pretty' life americans have.
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