<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 33.599998474121094px; font-size: 28px; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold";">Bury Me </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 33.599998474121094px; font-size: 28px; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold";">With</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 33.599998474121094px; font-size: 28px; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold";"> Soldiers</span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 33.599998474121094px; font-size: 28px; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold";"><br></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: rgb(81, 77, 77); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">By Megr. Charles R. Fink</span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: rgb(81, 77, 77); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sergeant in the l99th Infantry Brigade - Vietnam/69 </span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">I've played a lot of roles in life;</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">I've met a lot of men,</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">I've done a lot of things I'd like to think</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">I wouldn't do again.</span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">And though I'm young, I'm old enough</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">To</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"> know someday I'll die.</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">And to think about what lies beyond</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">,</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">Beside whom I would lie.</span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">Perhaps it doesn't matter much</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">;</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">Still if I had my c</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">hoice,</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">I'd want a grave '</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">mongst</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"> soldiers </span></p><p class="s5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">When a</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">t last death quells my voice.</span></p><p class="s5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">I'm sick of the hypocrisy</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">Of</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"> lectures of the wise.</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">I'll take the man, with all the flaws</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">,</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">Who goes, though scared, and dies.</span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">The troops I knew were commonplace</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">They didn't want the war</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">;</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">They fought because their fathers and</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">Their fathers had before.</span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">The</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">y cursed and killed and wept...</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">God knows</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">They're</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"> easy to deride...</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">But bury me with men like these</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">;</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">They faced the guns and died.</span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">It's funny when you think of it</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">,</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">The way we got along.</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">We'd come from different worlds</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">To</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"> live in one where no one belongs,</span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">I didn't even like them all</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">;</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">I'm sure they'd all agree.</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">Yet I would give my life fo</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">r them</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">,</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">I know some did for me.</span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">So bury me with soldiers, please</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">,</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">Though much maligned they be.</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">Yes, bury me with soldiers, for</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">I miss their company.</span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="s3" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">We'll not soon see their likes again</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">;</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">We've had our fill of war.</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">But bury me with men like them</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;">Till</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-family: Arial;"> someone else does more</span></p></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" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></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><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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