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To: Vitas who wrote (117)	1/31/2004 8:24:32 AM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 173976

"I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet." --Parable Here's some weekend reading for you, Vitas. And, below, a poem written by a soldier: An excerpt from A Vietnam Picture Tour The Poem by Gary Jacobson © 1999 >>>"All the people of the world need to understand How important war is comprehend. For those taking the stand, War will always be a determining factor A soldier's common denominator A life and death dictator Determining who we are in a worlds scheme of things Determining life’s aspiring Haunting life’s remembering Life’s future limiting Wives and children's futures altering Phantoms like Agent Orange breathing down their neck Making mockery of life a living...heck! A specter of hopelessness, devoid of all respect. "Hear a Combat Soldier’s Prayer From the depths of his Thousand Yard Stare,” Hear the cry from Soldiers Of the Wall From we who have given all In shadowed war's pall. Who gave our very life... To the country we loved more than life. "Do not doom our children as their fathers... Do not embroil a hundred thousand brothers Plunge them into senseless battles to fight For mistaken cause of right. Do not shackle them to a similar fate Suffered by their fathers in hating irate Contending the latest series of war-to-end-all-wars!" Teach the lessons of the history of wars Learn of destruction of values implications, Abiding with warring factions... Do not send them where there’s no glory but death Lingering in foul cankered breath Hovering in gloom’s misery for vanquished heroes Enduring shadowed stain forever, those, I suppose.... If we do not learn war's history, Tell of wars untold misery, We are doomed to repeat it! The next war inexorably we'll get! Again and again and again and again... "For though war is sometimes a necessary evil... Deterring madmen contentious in greed as the Devil... Sometimes it's not...Sometimes there's Vietnam! My fervent wish is that some Will come to understand Comprehend where to make a stand, To draw their line in the sand... Better plan how to use our might Know the score without experiencing the fight... Think first, before we act...evermore, Making war-no-more!"<<< pzzzz.tripod.com