THIS VETERAN S PASSING GOES UNNOTICED THE WORLD S A LITTLE POORER HE WAS GETTIG OLD AND PAUNCHY AND HIS HAIR WAS FALLING FAST AND HE SAT AROUND THE LEGION TELLING STORIES OF THE PAST, OF A WAR THAT HE HAD FOUGHT IN THE DEEDS THAT HE HAD DONE. IN HIS EXXPLOITS WITH HIS BUDDIES. HIS TALE BECAME A JOKE, ALL HIS BUDDIES LISTENED FOR THEY KNEW WHEREOF HE SPOKE. BUT WE;LL HEAR HIS TALES NO LONGER.FOR ;OLBOB HAS PASSED AWAY,AND THE WORLD,S A LITTLE POORER, FOR A VETERN DIED TODAY NO HE WON,T BE MOURNED BY MANY, JUST HIS CHILDREHIS WIFE. FOR HE LIVESAN ORDINARY,VERY QUIET SORT OF LIFE, HE HELD A JOB AND RAISED A FAMILY,QUIETY GOINGON HIS WAY,AND THE WORLD WONT NOTE HIS ASSING, THO A VETERAN DIED TODAY WHEN POLITICIANS LEAVE THIS EARTH. THEIR BODIES LIE IN STATE,WHILE THOUSANDS NOTE THERE PASSINGAND PROCLAIM THAT THEY WERE GREAT, PAPERS TELL OF THEIR LIFE STORIES, FROM THE TIME THAT THEY WERE YOUNG , BUT THE PASSING OF A VETERAN GOES UNNOTICED,AND UNSUNG, IS THE GREATEST CONTTRBUTION, TO THE WELFAREOF TRYOF OUR LAND,SOME JERK WHO BREAKS HIS PROMISE AND CONS HIS FELLOW MAN? OR THE ORDINARY FELLOW WHO IN TIMES OF WAR AND STRIFE, GOES OFF TO SERVE HIS COUNTY AND OFFERS UP HIS LIFE? THE POLITICIAN S STRIPENED AND THE STYLE IN WHICH HE LIVES , ARE SOMETMES DISPROPOTIONATE,TO THE SERVICE HE GIVES, WHILE THE ORDINARY VETERAN,WHO OFFERED UP HIS ALL,IS PAYED OFF WITH A MEDAL AND PERHAPS A PENSION SMALL ITS SO EASY T FORGET THEM FOR IT IS SO LONG AGO, THAT OUR BOBS AND JIMS AND JOHNNYS WENTTO BATTLE BUTWE KNOW, ITS WAS NOT THE POLITICIANS, WITH THEIR COMPROMISE AND PLOYS, WHO WON FOR US THE FREEDOM,THAT OUR COUNTRY NOW ENJOYS, SHOULD YOU FIND YOURSELF IN DANGER,WITH YOUR ENEMIES AT HAND, WOULD YOU REALLY WANT SOME COP.OUT,WITH HIS EVER,WAFFING STAND? OR WOULD YOU WANT A VETERAN,WHO HAS SWORN TO DEFEN, HIS HOME , HIS KIN AND COUNTRY AND WOULD FIGHT UNTIL THE END HE WAS JUST A COMMON VETERAN AND HIS RANKS ARE GROWING THIN,BUT HIS PRESENCE SHOULD REMIND US ,WE MAY NEED HIS LIKES AGAIN, FOR WHEN COUNTRIES ARE IN CONFLICT,THEN WE FIND THE MILITARY S PART IS TO CLEANUP ALL THE TROUBLES THAT THE POLITICANS START, IF WE CANNOT DO HIM HONOR,WHILE HES HERE TO HEAR THE PRAISE,THEN AT LEAST LET S GIVE HIM HOMAGE,AT THE ENDING OF HIS DAYS PERHAPS JUST A SIMPLE HEADLINE IN THE PAPERTHAT MIGHT SAY OUR CONNTRY IS IN MORNING FOR A VETERAN DIED TODAY
Posted on: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:11:32 +0000