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Anyone Over Eighteen, Admitted
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Anyone Over Eighteen, Admitted |
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Abe Senior Member
since 2003-05-28
Posts 694Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end! 
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Anyone Over Eighteen, Admitted Yeah, you can buy cigarettes But, you can’t get the booze And most offers held out to you Will, take you where you’ll lose. You can work at a fast food Though, nothing wrong with that Except, if you have some diploma That’s not near where, it, is at. Or, they can take your young blood Spilled in some foreign land Say, you can die, for Country And everything will be grand. They’ll hold a Funeral for you A gun Salute, and folded Flag They’ll hand it to your Loved Ones Give them, the right to brag. Yes, he died there in Vietnam Or over in some other place He made the warmongers richer Who’ll shed no tears, not a trace. Just a number in the body count Of all those killed and maimed Some remains found years later Who yet haven't been, given a name. They might give you an, “Angel Flight” If, your body has been found Tell you that spot is Sacred Where’er it touches down. They say it’s for, “God and Country! That, you must take up the gun Go, and kill all our enemies For, this battle must be won!” But, since ourWorld War Two Have, we ever really won a war? Sometimes our Heroes never know What the hell, they’re fighting for. Most times, it’s for their Brothers (And some Sisters, nowadays) To save each other’s life and limb Can be, the only part, that pays. Too many, of our young folks Have been thrown into, that grinder And every folded Flag, given Is, a coldhearted reminder. Not only wealth, we squander But worse, the Lives of our young And, for those who come Home Sometimes, their Hell has just begun. They used to call it, “Shell Shock.” Now it’s known as, “PTSD” While reliving all those horrors That, no human being, should see. But, we’ll just go on fighting Trying to kill, our Fellowman I ‘m sure that’s not what He had in mind When, He wrote, that Heavenly Plan! Del “Abe” Jones 12.05.2011 Del "Abe" Jones |
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ice Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404Pennsylvania |
Only one of the reasons that occupy wall streeters exist.. I hope this country realizes that. A poets power is in their pen.. You have a brave and powerful one.. Though the warmongers might not think so. "But, we’ll just go on fighting Trying to kill, our Fellowman I ‘m sure that’s not what He had in mind When, He wrote, that Heavenly Plan!" and that is obvious |
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