[Vision2020] Bury Me With Soldiers

[lfalen]

Thanks for posting this.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:54:51 -0800
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Bury Me With Soldiers

> "Bury Me With Soldierts"
> (author unknown)
> 
> I've played a lot of roles in life;
> I've met a lot of men,
> I've done a lot of things I'd like to think
> I wouldn't do again.
> 
> And though I'm young, I'm old enough
> To know someday I'll die.
> And to think about what lies beyond,
> Beside whom I would lie.
> 
> Perhaps it doesn't matter much;
> Still if I had my choice,
> I'd want a grave 'mongst soldiers
> When at last death quells my voice.
> 
> I'm sick of the hypocrisy
> Of lectures of the wise.
> I'll take the man, with all the flaws,
> Who goes, though scared, and dies.
> 
> The troops I knew were commonplace
> They didn't want the war;
> They fought because their fathers and
> Their fathers had before.
> 
> They cursed and killed and wept, God knows
> They're easy to deride...
> But bury me with men like these;
> They faced the guns and died.
> 
> It's funny when you think of it,
> The way we got along.
> We'd come from different worlds
> To live in one where no one belongs,
> 
> I didn't even like them all;
> I'm sure they'd all agree.
> Yet I would give my life for them,
> I know some did for me..
> 
> So bury me with soldiers, please,
> Though much maligned they be.
> Yes, bury me with soldiers, for
> I miss their company.
> 
> We'll not soon see their likes again;
> We've had our fill of war.
> But bury me with men like them
> Till someone else does more.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Pro patria,
> 
> Tom Hansen
> SFC, U.S. Army (Retired)
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "Freedom is never free."
> 
> - Author Unknown.
> 
> 
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