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[aid] => mick
[title] => FATE
[time] => 2012-03-20 04:00:59
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[bodytext] => I was standing on the bottom rungs Of the stairway to my plane, With orders going to Viet Nam When someone called my name. A Major came right up to me Saying there was a big mistake, There were questions on my physicals, And this flight I could not take Other men I joined the Air Force with Had become some real close friends. I yelled to them I'd see them soon And would join them once again. But later after dark I heard A knock upon my door. A Sergeant came to inform me Of a water crash near the shore. And so I sought to be released From my Air Force enlistment then. I was suffering much and grieving, Knowing I should have been with them. But I returned to join the Army. That memory was in my past. Years had come and gone by now, But another knock came like a blast. Your mother had a heart attack, And surgery is scheduled soon. A military flight's not possible, A civilian one leaves at noon. It was leaving there from Washington, I jumped into the transport van. But in the snow packed icy roads, We spun off the road overturning then. I would not make that Florida flight. Outside it was like a fridge. Later I learned that plane had crashed Into the Washington DC bridge. A future family member Who worked at the FBI, Was on that bridge and saw that crash With her very own horrified eyes. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 105 [topic] => 21 [informant] => robert_edgar_burns [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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