An American Warrior

An American Warrior please tell me why if you can the reason I don’t have a right hand my right leg is missing as well all I can say is war is hell I volunteered to serve my country to defend it from harm and to protect peoples in foreign lands who wanted to live free from tyranny when I look at the news I shed a tear at what my buddies and I gave and all my brave buddies laying in their grave was all for not the country of Iraq is worse off today and falling apart and will not survive so I ask again what did I give my right hand and leg for for what for what I scream and shout what was my sacrifice all about please tell me if you can my mind and body are in pain tears fall from my eyes like an April rain my body is not whole I am one man who is mad as hell The way this poem came about is, I was sitting in my easy chair when these thoughts kept coming into my head. I wrote these words down. Some American Warrior Hero somewhere was thinking these thoughts I just happened to tune them in I have written 6 poems this way over the years. God bless our American Warrior Hero’s Dennis Davis July 4th 2014