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Rdz9
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0 posted 2004-09-21 02:45 AM


Timeless nights and memories
Lost upon the waves
Forgotten times and enemies
Written on Nameless graves

The soldiers of the past
Walk through our lives today
Memories, each stronger than the last
Pass through our minds each day

They fought for us through night and day
All so far from home
While their friends worked and played
They were broken and alone

Our lives they fought for every night
Tired after long days work
They prayed to god with all their might
Fell to their knees, sank in the dirt

Tear lines streak their dirty faces
And not a man does speak
Hundreds of people, different races
Eyes lift to the sky, gods face to seek

Each together and alone
Staring to the sky
Hearts and minds turned from stone
Softly each man cries

The names of family and of friends
They have left behind
They know each day might be their end
Their last moment in time

They walk a path that few would dare
Compassion, from their hearts reflect…
Whether or not you like the war…
These men… these women deserve our respect.



One in a sea of millions has the power to change the world...

© Copyright 2004 Rob - All Rights Reserved
Larry C
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1 posted 2004-09-21 02:48 AM


Now that my friend is an excellent tribute so well written and so well expressed. Can't say I get the title but the rest is wonderful. Thank you.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

Rdz9
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2 posted 2004-09-21 02:49 AM


This is something I truly believe... In our current state, there is no draft in place. The men and women defending our country are there by their own will... free will, that our ancestors before us fought for, and won for us. I walk the streets and I hear people criticizing President Bush... and his decision to go to war. Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion on the subject... and that I am fine with... but today I heard someone call a soldier stupid... and it made me a tad irate. If nothing else, give them your respect. You don't have to like something to respect it... but they deserve the respect.

One in a sea of millions has the power to change the world...

Larry C
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3 posted 2004-09-21 02:56 AM


Amen!

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

A Romantic Heart
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4 posted 2004-09-21 03:02 AM


The soldiers are giving their lives for freedom, How much could any of us do that for them?

Maybe you should have turned around and asked the person on the street that same question who called a soldier stupid....

"Would you die right now to save me?" "for freedom?" "For Your Friends?, Your Family?"

No..they wouldn't have the courage, the strength or bravery to do it.

When put to them like that...it makes them think or it should...then anyone who could say that about a soldier doesn't have a brain in the first place.

I don't care about WHY they are doing it...it is the fact that they ARE doing it...and knowing the price.

This proves how disrespectful and spoiled America is in the first place, I am ashamed of the ungrateful attitude...let these people who say such things go and live in another country that isn't protected by fellow men...and see what they say after that!

Your poem was very thought provoking and stirred me up...LOL

Love and Hugs
~ARH


Come,love all of me, mind, body, spirit..feel my passion, taste of me, be filled completely!


Rdz9
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5 posted 2004-09-21 03:25 AM


*Grins* Thank you for that... both of you. The same thought crossed my mind as well ARH... there are things in this world worth living for, and then there are things worth dieing for.  

One in a sea of millions has the power to change the world...

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