<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div><b>“Bury Me With Soldiers”</b></div><div>(author unknown)</div><div><br></div><div>I've played a lot of roles in life;</div><div>I've met a lot of men,</div><div>I've done a lot of things I'd like to think</div><div>I wouldn't do again.</div><div><br></div><div>And though I'm young, I'm old enough</div><div>To know someday I'll die.</div><div>And to think about what lies beyond,</div><div>Beside whom I would lie.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps it doesn't matter much;</div><div>Still if I had my choice,</div><div>I'd want a grave 'mongst soldiers</div><div>When at last death quells my voice.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm sick of the hypocrisy</div><div>Of lectures of the wise.</div><div>I'll take the man, with all the flaws,</div><div>Who goes, though scared, and dies.</div><div><br></div><div>The troops I knew were commonplace</div><div>They didn't want the war;</div><div>They fought because their fathers and</div><div>Their fathers had before.</div><div><br></div><div>They cursed and killed and wept...God knows</div><div>They're easy to deride...</div><div>But bury me with men like these;</div><div>They faced the guns and died.</div><div><br></div><div>It's funny when you think of it,</div><div>The way we got along.</div><div>We'd come from different worlds</div><div>To live in one where no one belongs,</div><div><br></div><div>I didn't even like them all;</div><div>I'm sure they'd all agree.</div><div>Yet I would give my life for them,</div><div>I know some did for me.</div><div><br></div><div>So bury me with soldiers, please,</div><div>Though much maligned they be.</div><div>Yes, bury me with soldiers, for</div><div>I miss their company.</div><div><br></div><div>We'll not soon see their likes again;</div><div>We've had our fill of war.</div><div>But bury me with men like them</div><div>Till someone else does more.</div></div><div><br></div>———————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></body></html>