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[sid] => 163720
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => THE PAIN OF WAR
[time] => 2010-12-15 06:06:42
[hometext] => THE WASTEFUL LOSS OF LIFE IN WAR
[bodytext] => TODAY I WITNESSED WAR! NOT IN THE BLOODIED KILLING FIELDS OF AFGHANISTAN NOT IN THE LIFELESS DESERTS OF IRAQ NOT IN THE HATE FILLED STREETS OF CHECHNYA BUT IN THE QUIET OF A COUNTRY GRAVEYARD NO BIRD SANG AS WE LAYED THE YOUNG SOLDIER TO REST NOT A BREEZE TOUCHED THE TEARS OF HIS GRIEVING MOTHER BUT THE PAIN, WE ALL FELT THE PAIN AND THE QUESTION IN OUR MINDS? WHY!!! HIS COMMANDING OFFICER SAID HE WAS A HERO THE PADRE SAID HE WAS WITH GOD NOW HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS SALUTED THEIR FALLEN COMRADE HIS WIFE STOOD MOTIONLESS HOLDING HIS NEW BORN SON HE’LL MAKE A FINE SOLDIER SOMEDAY THEN IT WAS OVER HANDS WERE SHAKEN CHEEKS WERE KISSED CONDOLENCES PASSED ON NOW HE LIES ALONE TOMORROW BRINGS A NEW DAY AND SOMEWHERE…. ANOTHER FUNERAL [comments] => 1 [counter] => 98 [topic] => 57 [informant] => tamren [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => war )
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