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©R.L.King2012 #M-11

About: Military Service

“Between birth and death dwells a lifetime.
Be it one day or a century, for each, it occurs only once.

Make it matter!”

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WHEN DADDY WENT TO WAR  
© Copyright 2013 Richard Lee King

He had 5 kids and had just turned thirty four,
when he received his draft notice and was called off to the war.

Everyone wondered how we were going to survive.
Seems, somehow we managed, though I’m sure we didn’t thrive.

I was way too young to remember those days,
but I heard all about them while I was being raised.

I don’t even remember him being gone, the way my older siblings do.
Course, he was back home again before I reached the age of two.

Whatever he did during the war he didn’t come to any harm
and by the time I turned four, we had bought a little farm.

Even my memories of those days are really quite obscure.
Is it a memory or was I told?  I’m often not all that sure.

Seems, I remember dad talking about something called the CC camps
and I know I remember Mom saving S & H green stamps.

I really couldn’t tell you about the timing of various events,
the way we lived our lives, or how our spare time was spent.

This was many, many years before our first TV.
At night we sat around the radio, my whole family and me.

Most all of our clothes, we called “hand me downs”
and our mom never owned one of those fancy evening gowns.

We got welfare for a while and Dad talked about the WPA.
That was a government program, way back in the day.

Somehow we all made it through those difficult early days
and I’m really proud of the family, Mom and Dad worked so hard to raise.

We all knew the value of an honest day’s work
and whenever there was a duty, my family didn’t shirk.

Now three different generations have served our Uncle Sam.
We were in World War II and Korea though not in Vietnam.

My family has always been patriotic and it’s a difficult thing to see,
when people put our country down, or disrespect our democracy.

People say you never served, why would you support this fight?
Well, my dad, my brother, and my son all served, giving me that right.

They saw it as their duty, not part of a master plan,
and though I didn’t serve I support our military when I can.

Today’s soldiers, like my dad, probably didn’t want to fight,
but they’re all doing their duty, and supporting them is only right.

Any way you slice it, the world’s a better place
because of the US Military, and the challenges they have faced.

When my daddy went to war, that wasn’t his first choice,
but because of him & his Band of Brothers, we now wield the strongest voice.

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