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Abe
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since 2003-05-28

Posts 694
Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end!

0 posted 2005-10-25 07:08 PM

Two thousand of our Finest Lost
And no matter how you Feel
If this War is wrong or right?
All those Losses are too Real.

Every State in our Union
Has Lost at least one Soul
And most of our Possessions
Has added some, to that Sad Toll.

As part of that Wartime Cost
Almost fifty Women Died
As their Duty to their Country
Stood with the Men, by their side.

The First took eighteen months
The Second thousand, in one year
There’s not a sign of winding down
But, it’s getting Worse, I Fear.

There are fifteen thousand Wounded
Many of them Maimed for Life
Some Lost Limbs, some, Peace of Mind
To the Waste of Wartime’s strife.

Thousands of Loved Ones and Friends
Are Mourning, aching with that Pain
Knowing there are only Memories
Of those they’ll never See again.

Close to three hundred Contractors
“In Country” of their own volition
But for those Grieving Loss at home
It doesn’t change the Pain’s Condition.

And, then there are those Estimates
Of maybe thirty thousand more
Innocent Men, Women and Kids
Who have passed through Allah’s door.

Two and one half years so far
That’s at Least one thousand each Day
And with no Ending within Sight
I wonder what Price we will Pay?

Some will argue, it is Worth it
And some will say the Cost, too High
But I just wonder Why, for Freedom
So Many always have to Die?

10-25-2005

Del "Abe" Jones
Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity.

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2005-10-25 08:15 PM

me too, Abe, me too
thank you, for this write

~number one was too many for me~

Angelheart
Senior Member

since 2005-09-08

Posts 754
Jacksonville,FL USA

2 posted 2005-10-25 08:38 PM

Well things get complicating in life, and we all never really understand it sometimes, this is a nice write, with a good flow, thanks for sharing.

Poetry can get you very far
-Laura

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

3 posted 2005-10-25 08:41 PM

it incenses me that someone in the military hierarchy referred to this number today as an "artificial mark on a wall"

I'd like to meet that jerk face-to-face
~up against a wall~

(you know the rest of the lyrics) but today, I just have to say that whoever thinks this number is OK?
is just plain wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

4 posted 2005-10-26 07:45 PM

Nice writing...James

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