<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Bury Me With Soldiers"</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I've played a lot of roles in life;<br>I've met a lot of men,<br>I've done a lot of things I'd like to think<br>I wouldn't do again.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And though I'm young, I'm old enough<br>To know someday I'll die.<br>And to think about what lies beyond,<br>Beside whom I would lie.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Perhaps it doesn't matter much;<br>Still if I had my choice,<br>I'd want a grave 'mongst<br>Soldiers when<br>At last death quells my voice.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm sick of the hypocrisy<br>Of lectures of the wise.<br>I'll take the man, with all the flaws,<br>Who goes, though scared, and dies.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The troops I knew were commonplace<br>They didn't want the war;<br>They fought because their fathers and<br>Their fathers had before.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They cursed and killed and wept...<br>God knows<br>They're easy to deride...<br>But bury me with men like these;<br>They faced the guns and died.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's funny when you think of it,<br>The way we got along.<br>We'd come from different worlds<br>To live in one where no one belongs,</span></p><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I didn't even like them all;<br>I'm sure they'd all agree.<br>Yet I would give my life for them,<br>I know some did for me..</span></p><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So bury me with soldiers, please,<br>Though much maligned they be.<br>Yes, bury me with soldiers, for<br>I miss their company.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We'll not soon see their likes again;<br>We've had our fill of war.<br>But bury me with men like them<br>Till someone else does more.</span></p><p></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">- Author Unknown</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">------------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>