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Post by Mephisto927 on Nov 10, 2013 8:23:37 GMT -5
Thank You For Your Service
He made the choice to go To do what he thought right Someone else made the choice Where he’d go and where he would fight Thank you for your service
Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground Find the courage in comrades, proud and honor bound Find the price of dignity in how they treated him Find the cost service, paid by each of them Thank you for your service
Now he sits and they wheel him, to the back of the plane Others volunteer to take his place in coach Eyes full of tears, heart full of shame Bureaucrats made the decisions, always beyond reproach Thank you for your service But now you make us nervous
Was it worth the sacrifice, was it worth that price Was it worth his leg, was it worth their lives The country he loved had turned its back on him Cut his food stamps and benefits on some political whim Thank you for your service But you make us nervous
He goes to honor the fallen from wars past To remember sacrifice and hope that wars will forever stop “They’ve barricaded entry” politicos cry aghast They use him as a photo-op Thank you for your service Please vote for us
Was it just a pipe dream His fervor and his zeal How did honor become a meme Was it ever real Thank you for your service How did it turn to shit
Some scream silently at all that has hurt them Some lash out in fear Some take it inside and punish themselves Others on those near and dear But the ones they blame least of all Were their battlefield brothers Thank you for your service To you and all those many others
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