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Open Poetry #35

The Thin Red Line

Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

0 posted 2005-02-23 02:42 AM

What’s out there
You don’t want to know
what’s out there

It’s where men
who do good things
come to bad ends

Those that get back
if they do get back
live the rest of their lives
as open wounds

You want to go
be a hero
I won’t stop you

You were warned—

And there are plenty of purple hearts
to go around

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

1 posted 2005-02-23 01:37 PM

Those that get back
if they do get back
live the rest of their lives
as open wounds

I know some of these men... and even though they weren't trying to be heros... you're absolutely right about the results.

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2005-02-26 12:31 PM

And yet there are those who feel obligated
to serve the only country they have...

melting pot that we are.

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

3 posted 2005-02-26 03:02 PM

The story is old....
A love of country, a sense of duty, a strong desire to be of help.....And a young man not yet at his 18th birthday, lives through the battle of Leyte out on the Pacific, a gunner, and never mentions it to any one, his only words, "who wants to remember?" best, marty

Drauntz
Member Elite

since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

4 posted 2007-05-01 02:33 PM

war may build a man and may ruin a man but most of all, surly kills man.

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