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©R.L.King2012 #M-8
About: Military Service
(Serving with Honor)
“The future offers knowledge,
memories stir the past.
Weapons insure our freedom,
if we handle them with class.”
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Ronald D. King (1934/2023)
A MILITARY MAN
© Copyright 2013 Richard Lee King
He has faced the demons found within the ways of war,
he’s fought in foreign countries, protecting foreign shores.
He has carried a rifle, along with his 80-pound pack,
and the weight of the entire world, all heaped upon his back.
He was still learning to live, as he was learning how to kill,
he’s found the search for liberty, can be a mighty bitter pill.
He’s a military man, with humanitarian intent,
fighting the world’s demons, wherever he’s been sent.
He joined because of duty, because he felt it was his chore,
just as it was for his brothers, all those who went before.
Freedom comes at a cost that not all are willing to pay,
but a soldier pays that price, each and every day.
Only those who’ve served the cause, can ever fully understand
the price that’s paid for freedom, by a military man.
Those who’ve carried war weapons, and slept together in a trench,
who know the smell of death, and have endured that awful stench.
We’re thankful he’s still standing, that freedom is still the goal,
but most of all we’re thankful to those who’ve filled that role.
When the flag of freedom waves, and the worlds at peace again,
when the soldiers all return, we’ll record this as a win.
When the flag of freedom waves, when the worlds at peace again,
…when our soldiers all return, THEN, …and only THEN!
….. we will count it as a win.
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