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The sharp suited man With the Legal Degree Looks back over years To pass judgement on me. While he was getting drunk In student Uni bars I was uniformed and fighting Our country’s various wars. The greatest impulse Is the will to survive To stay in one piece To get out still alive If you've not been there You just can't understand How fear and anger Can get out of hand. A split second’s action In the heat of a fight Is now being appraised As being wrong or right. Now we’ve both reached Our late middle age, Him on his thousands, Me existing on minimum wage, Plus the long service pension They’ve been paying of late, Not exactly bounteous millions Reward for serving the state. And he has his portfolio Of cases, no win no fee, And he is trying to make A criminal of me. In thanks for the security For him and his ilk That our actions earned, Now he’s taken the Silk, He puts our actions Under the spotlights As a campaigning lawyer in The cause of Human rights. I was a volunteer so I don’t Expect or need his gratitude Just maybe some compassion To temper his attitude. I scream in pain at the memory Of things that I’ve done While he waxes fat on The fees that he’s won. It’s a strange justice that My efforts set him free To harass and pursue Combat veterans like me. That sharp suited man With the Legal Degree, With the benefit of hindsight, Passes judgement on me. This is not about me, but the many Veterans who for years have lived under this threat. Nobody condones War Crimes, but we do ask for a level playing field and equality of treatment.