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War Regret

Our brothers were born upside down They were conceived by mistake.....and our fathers choose to call them prodigal Who would have thought as much? With their faces beaming with smiles as their foreheads shone bright with promising future, There names we never wished to forget because they made us live reciting it again and again But they ended up stamped on grave stones just because they were too obedient to pick up the gun and had gone Now we wished they weren’t born at all We wished they hadn’t picked up the gun but run We wished we were wishes We wouldn’t have wished war.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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Date: 9/11/2019 5:24:00 PM
Powerful statement. As a 30 year veteran that never saw war, I was one of the lucky ones, my brother not so much as he was wounded in Vietnam. What would happen if the people told their public servants you declared it, you go and fight it.
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