A United States Marine
You take a real young man,
put him in a uniform.
Give that boy a gun,
and watch him start to form.
You give him weeks of training,
when you think he has it right.
Then you send him far away,
to a place for him to fight.
He watched his friends get killed,
there are no greater fears.
There is nothing he can do,
but cry those lonely tears.
All you can do is move ahead,
try to keep yourself alive.
Think about when you get home,
is what gives you your thrive.
And now that it's all over,
and the worst you ever seen.
You would do it all again,
your a United States Marine.
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