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To: LindyBill who wrote (90922)	12/16/2004 10:57:05 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793799

I can recite quite a bit of Kipling and Service. So this hits home with me. Mudville Gazette Rough men Hawk, It was my reading of that quote at your site so many times that inspired me to write something about it. It is a wonderful bit of wisdom, and combined with this quote of Haile Selassie's, is a rather effective way of making critics of the war ponder their position, if but for a moment, until their fuzzy logic takes hold again. "Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” -George Orwell (with a nod to the Mudville Gazette) Rough men There’s a character trait that’s decided by fate Comes (sadly) to many, far too faint, far too late. They won’t face the aggressor, stand up to his ire They have not the will to fight his fire with fire. So they bend over backwards to see all sides as fair, Till they’re faced with dragon breath fire in their hair. Like our brethren in France, who’d know better than we, Yet seem never to learn, seem doomed never to see. Yes, it seems there are some who’re determined by fate, To possess not the courage to step up to the plate, Who shrink from all threat because nothing’s worth war. But how can they know lest they’ve been there before? Thank God some have courage, the will, yes, the grace, To stand for the shirkers, stand strong in their place. Thank God we have stalwarts who’ll stand for us all, Who will rise to the challenge at their nation’s call. The faint-hearted, who fear, whose reaction is flight, Have no comprehension of those who will fight. To hide their own trepidation they attempt to demean The rough men, who defend them, as barbaric, obscene. Yet these rough men stand ready, hard weapons to hand, To put placaters behind them, draw a line in the sand, To preserve for the peaceniks what they won’t defend, So their own unearned freedom won’t perish, won’t end. To appeasers, rough men are coarse government tools. To rough men, appeasers are dumb delusional fools. Russ Vaughn 2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment 101st Airborne Division Vietnam 65-66 Thank You Russ Russ Vaughn is the Poet Laureate of The American Thinker