Brave men are we
Soldiers of freedom
Marching off to war
Answer freedom's call for help
When we were children
We dreamed of this day
When did it happen?
When did we trade our toy guns,
For real ones?
Now the time has come
To leave all behind
Many will not return
All, will never be the same
We still go knowing the price
The price we all will pay
How can you do it?
Some will ask
The answer is simple
Because,
My Father did it before me
And his Father before him
They fought for my freedom
Now,
I fight for my children's freedom
And they too dream of the day,
The day they can answer freedom's call
The call so all can be free
Now and forever
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Written February 1st, 2004
In a list
A contest entry
- My first contest! by Rock Star Angel.
300 points, ended February 9, 2004, 68 entries
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omg, i love this!! it iz so pretty and i depicts this subject so well!!! good write!
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This poem was so good.it even gave me a lume in my heart ake as i was reading it.As well as almost cry.It really made me realize what you guys go through. I am also glad nothing happend to you over there and that you are safe and abe to come home and be with your family. As well as are kind enough to shard you srory with us through your poetry.Christina
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This is well written and raises interesting points- well done
, I didn't read it on an anti-war in Iraq piece I read it as an anti-universal war piece. Well done!
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well thank you, finally someone makes a good point without being stupid about it. I totally reapect people who peacefully protest and actually try to do positive things to what they beleive in. It's just I don't generally see too many people doing that in a positive manner. Thank you for the insightful and intelligent comment.
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well i can see anti-americans are not much loved here but I will have my say all the same. I would like to point out firstly that this is well written. It is important to fight for what you believe in and if joining the army is your answer then so be it. I would just like to say that fighting for freedom does not always mean joining the military. There are other ways to help preserve human rights and freedom. Not to say that I disaprove of your answer to preserving freedom-sometimes war is necessary- I'm just saying it is not the only option. People who disagree with the government I may point out often do not just sit there and "complain" there are many of us who actually do stuff.Everything that I find wrong with this country I have tried to prevent.I often donate money,demonstrate,protest and generally try to increase awareness. No one seems to be rediculing Gandhi for participating in peaceful protest and certainly no one is accusing him of being a complainer. We are not radicals we are looking for freedom just the same as you just in a diiferent place. Nice write though made me think
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Kewl
Hey I hate people who despise our government, me being in the Auxilary of the Airforce i am proud to be a american so every one who hates the way our country is run and handled, F*CK OFF!
But over all great write talk to ya later, and thanx for the comment.:-)
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Interesting to see and read all the comments before me...
Uh like the others.. I think you captured this too well it's honestly scad (scary and sad) Your words always move my heart and thoughts into places I never let myself wander into.... Truly beautifully done in it's own sense...Thanks for sharing this, as always war sings it's silent words that your aren't faint to notice, but express them in ways I could never dream of...Take care of yourself sweetie, always yours, ~Star
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Ok? so now you are saying that my way of thinking is flawed? Basically saying that it is wrong. But if that were so, how come all of the points I have made are logical and correct? Sure some of the things I've said are pretty vicous such as the whole lowering the population, but it is a very true point. I'm sorry that you don't seem to realize the truth and are affraifd to look it straight in the eye and accept what it is. I hope that your odd liberal ways help you to mask the truth of life through the rest of yours. I tend to agree with BadMothers last comment except not as Politacaly incorrect as he has put it. Anywyas this argument started out about what the poem was about and it's about the Revolutionary/Spanish American/Civil wars. Not about terrorism or any such acts.
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First, I never said you had to leave. But you people are all the same. You scream and yell about how much this government sucks, but what you don't realize is that in many other countrys, you couldn't say that. So how bad can it really be. Second, I'm done with you. Somebody put it best when they said "Arguing on the internet is like running in the special olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded." Have a nice life.
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You are most welcome – and I believe you writing has improved a little with the practise… although your logic remains severely flawed.
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I never said that if you disagree with the government you HAVE to get out. BUt if you really do nothing besides complain about it then why the hell stay? It doesn't make sense. I'm all for freedom of speech and everyhting, ut only if you are willing to act upon your ideals rather than just sit here and belly ache about it, that's all. I was also making the point that should you leave you'd hate being away from all of those freedoms. I am truly sorry that you keep missintrputing things this badly, and I am sorry that you don't seem to have your facts straight as well, it's making you look extremly foolish and idiotic. I always had a high opinion of people but you seem to have single handedly lowered that opinion. Thank you for letting me see the truth about what people are really like.
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silica are you rilly this blind, how could you think that what we are doing is trreorism? do you know nothing about the war? maybe you shuold get your facts strate and then comment on this.
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So if one disagrees with the government, one must leave the country… a strange form of democracy and free speech you have.
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Holy shit Silica. If you hate it so damn much, get the hell out. We don't want you here. Why don't you take your anti-government ideas over to another country, like pre-war Iraq, and see how far your comments will get you. I can tell you where. Right up on a block in front of people. The head man's block. For christ's sake man! What we did is not terrorism. We formaly declared war. I didn't hear no such declaration when the World Trade Center was destroyed. But wait, that's right, Bush planned and ochestrated that. How could I forget? Jesus God! And as for the poor here. Well, I'm sick of people blaming everyone else. If it's such a big damn deal to you, why don't you give up your shit to some starving kid on the street. I bet you don't even clean your plate every meal and yet you whine about how others are starving. How dare you? Secondly, if these people would stop their own whining and actually DO something, maybe they wouldn't be so damn poor. Or maybe you're right. Maybe we should all put all of our money and possesions into one big pile, and doll them out evenly. That seemed to work for Russia... oh wait... And to bring it back to Iraq, to even say that we're not helping is re-fucking-diculous. Iraq had one of the best economies in the world, and then Sadam took power and the whole country went to shit. Since the offcial cease fire, Iraq has grown by leaps and bounds. And futhermore, if we eliminate the millitary and other such organizations, like former president Bill Clinton tried to do, we'll just have more 9/11s to larger degrees. And for that matter, Bill Clinton bombed Iraq during his presidency on the same information and with out support of the UN, just like bush. Every president since Ronald Regan has made some move in Iraq with the same information and for the same reasons, Bush is just the only one that actually stood up to his word and completed what he said he was goning to do. But to bring it away from Iraq and talk about the subject matter of the poem, Millitary and soldiers are a nessasary part of society. Do you think that if America got rid of it's soldiers, the rest of the world would say, "Oh, they are not armed, we should praise them and do likewise." No. They won't. Because belive it or not, there are people in the world that are more evil than you think Bush is. And those people would come in here, and pretty soon your family and my family and WranglerSteve's family and many others would be at the bottom of mass graves. I think Metallica said it best when they said, "To secure peace is to prepare for war.".
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You are an idiot to say that war has brought about none of thse things. In WWI, the great war, the discovered a way to to blood and plasma transfusions. In the civil war they discovered bacteria and germs not to mention the came up with the idea of the ambulance. In WWII they came up with the microwave from the heat the radar stations were generating, not to mention the incredable advance in satelite technology, which brought about cell phones and satelite television. We can't skip over the nuclear power that came about from the research done on nuclear weapons. In the vietnam war they advanced ambulance speed by advancing helicopter speed and distance. Also they were able to come up with bullet stopping armor and night vision which has immensly helped out the police by stopping severe wounds and by tracking criminals in the dark. The list continues farther and farther anf farther. It'll go on and on. Kinda funny what youy don't realize what war has done for us.
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What utter nonsense – war has achieved none of those things, spending money on the problem has brought about the advances and if you take into account the whole cost of the war – in a very expensive way. I think we had better agree to disagree because I find your arguments childish and unconsidered but realise I will not make any impression.
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I'd have to agree full heartedly with BadMother. He summed it up quite well. If you don't agree with the government we really don't want you in our country. Go to another one be oppressed and just wish for America to save you from the hell hole you've moved to. Beside, you do know that the majority of the Iraqi populatin completly supported what Bush and America did. Besides it was a declaration of war and Bush alone cannot do that so... The majority, in fact I beleive almost all of the country supported him whole heartedly. God, I wish you people would realize that. What exactly do you have a problem with war for anyways? If it weren't for war you'd most likely be dead. It has advanced medicine so far, you wouldn't even realize it. Not to mention energy production, communications, agriculture, and the list goes on. Not to mention sure it's kinda a disturbed thought but, it keeps the population down too. You do realize that if it were not for war we'd be starving right now, most of us would be dead too. So, next time you feel like bashing war think about what it has done for you. And next time you think that what we as a nation is doing is terrorism, realize what terrorism really is. It sure as hell isn't what we did or are ever going to do.
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I am afraid you confuse ‘helping’ with ‘interfering’ – Bush does not even help the starving in America – or the ‘terror’ on the streets. Can you really be so naïve as to believe he is going into Iraq to ‘help’ them? Wake up and smell the bullshit!
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Well, then let's see here. You do realize should America pull out all suporrt they give to everyone the world would crumble and fall. You sould know that I know that. Too bad everyone does not know that. As for supporting him before we all know it wasn't besr, but what it was was the lesser of two evils. We didn't have much of a choice and anyone who does not see that is a fool to not have realized it. I for one have always said that we should just let them kill each other and let satan sort them out. But, the government sees fit to try and help them. I support them with my whole being. Besides we are helping to right a wrong we made. I think that whenever you do make a wrong you should try to fix it, Especially one this big. And at least my government can admit when it's wrong, that's good. So anyways I beleive that you are a fool to think that what we have done is an act of terrorism, it was an act to stop terrorism. At least we're trying to do something rahter than all those other governments that sit back and twiddle their thumbs sayin "Hmmm... too bad that's happening, but it's not our place to interfer". Well damn it it's your place as human being to stop it. So, as you see I have made quite a bit of arguments here. And you would be a fool to at least not listen to them. But I know that you'll just be another pig-headed poet just like the rest of them here, affraid of controversy and affraid to really open their minds to change. I hope you good tidings
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Do you really believe your minority government has the right to enter any country and replace the leader? Saddam was killing Kurds and Iraqis when he was being armed by the U.S.A., why was it alright then and not now? You are being conned by a warmonger and international criminal to believe your cause is just, when it is both illegal and immoral. It may seem that I support Saddam Hussein – I do not, but then I didn’t support him when he was killing Iranians for America either – it is your country which has turned one eighty. Soldiers are just terrorists with uniforms – the TERROR is as real.
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Ummm... Do you not see the picture and background? And besides I'm really talking more about conventioanl war. Terrorism ia not so much going into somone elses country and beginning a fight. I'm talking about a war for a just cause not for petty land and greed. Terrorism is an entirly different thing. It's trying to control the population through fear, thus the name TRREORism. Not just simply war to stop a mad man from doing evil. Now, you can't tell that what we did in WWII was terroism. We went into many different countries and fought. Fought for what I still beleive is considered a just cause. So please now, tell me. What do you think my peice is about? Your terrorist or our fathers fighting for freedom, freedom for all of us Americans?
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One man’s freedom fighter is another’s terrorist… mind you, as a rule of thumb, if you are doing it in someone else’s country you are the terrorist. How would America feel about being invaded because their President was not democratically elected…
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Thank you for your comments and catching the errors I made. It means a lot to me.
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This is a beautiful legacy, and so much truth to it. Our Fathers fought for our freedom, so that we could have the opportunity to do the same for our children should it ever arise. This horos all who have died before in war, and those who will eventually die in war. Phenominal write
PS ~ Only typo: "freedoms" in fourth line from the top and third line from the bottom should be "freedom's" to show ownership
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