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Blood soaked ground,
Covered in green grass,
Lives for freedom,
Will this treasure last?
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Mothers and father yearn,
The soldier, their beloved son,
Lives given for freedom,
Do we value that which they won?
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Wives and children lost,
Without the ones, they love.
Gone e’er for freedom.
Stars and stripes fly above.
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Countries free because of you,
Freedom enjoyed at home,
Comrade freedom is not free,
True soldiers forever gone.
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Would you forge forward in battle?
Would you pay the death toll?
Lives traded, freedom is not free,
Taps from the bugle roll.
Gayle Davis
April 9, 2004©
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