<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 33px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'; font-size: 28px;">Bury Me </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 33px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'; font-size: 28px;">With</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 33px; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'; font-size: 28px;"> Soldiers</span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">I've played a lot of roles in life;</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">I've met a lot of men,</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">I've done a lot of things I'd like to think</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">I wouldn't do again.</span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">And though I'm young, I'm old enough</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">To</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"> know someday I'll die.</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">And to think about what lies beyond</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">,</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">Beside whom I would lie.</span></p><p class="s6" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s6" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">Perhaps it doesn't matter much</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">;</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">Still if I had my c</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">hoice,</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">I'd want a grave '</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">mongst</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"> soldiers</span></p><p class="s6" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">When a</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">t last death quells my voice.</span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">I'm sick of the hypocrisy</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">Of</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"> lectures of the wise.</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">I'll take the man, with all the flaws</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">,</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">Who goes, though scared, and dies.</span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">The troops I knew were commonplace</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">They didn't want the war</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">;</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">They fought because their fathers and</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">Their fathers had before.</span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">The</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">y cursed and killed and wept...</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">God knows</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">They're</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"> easy to deride...</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">But bury me with men like these</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">;</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">They faced the guns and died.</span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">It's funny when you think of it</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">,</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">The way we got along.</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">We'd come from different worlds</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">To</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"> live in one where no one belongs,</span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">I didn't even like them all</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">;</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">I'm sure they'd all agree.</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">Yet I would give my life fo</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">r them</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">,</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">I know some did for me.</span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">So bury me with soldiers, please</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">,</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">Though much maligned they be.</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">Yes, bury me with soldiers, for</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">I miss their company.</span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">We'll not soon see their likes again</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">;</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">We've had our fill of war.</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">But bury me with men like them</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">Till</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"> someone else does more.</span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial;">- Author unknown</span></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><img src="cid:C5E3824A-89A4-4D87-8584-B1D6DEA4E53B" alt="tumblr_lugekqYh521r2ynt4o1_1280.jpg" id="C5E3824A-89A4-4D87-8584-B1D6DEA4E53B" width="640" height="933"></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;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Songs of the U.S. military forces . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">U. S. Army song</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Army.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Army.mp3</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">U. S. Air Force song</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Air_Force.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Air_Force.mp3</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">U. S. Navy song</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Navy.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Navy.mp3</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">U. S. Marine Corps song</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Marine_Corps.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Marine_Corps.mp3</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Tom Hansen</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Moscow, Idaho</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-- Adlai E. Stevenson</span></p></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div> </div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>