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Tag Archives: war
The Devil’s Dance
I usually post my poetry on my poetry blog A Grateful Man’s Poetry at A Grateful Man’s Poetry rather than this one but in this case my heart whispered to include it on this site as well, and I’ve learned to listen … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Breakthroughs, Choices, Courage, Growth/Learning, Heroes, Peace, Poetry, Poetry I Wrote
Tagged choices, courage, death, Life, peace, poetry, war
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War No More
I think I’ve found a cure for war So young men and women need die no more If anyone must fight and die Let’s make leaders answer their own battle cries Instead of reasons to go to war They’ll say, … Continue reading
Posted in Observations, Poetry I Wrote
Tagged battle cries, cure, leaders, poem, poetry, war, war no more
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A Life So True
They say war is Hell and it’s true But even in war there are rules You tend to know friend from foe But in gossiping anything goes No one is safe from whispered words Spoken when one’s back is turned … Continue reading
Posted in Gossipping, My Beliefs, Observations, Poetry I Wrote
Tagged fools, gossip, gossipping, hell, poem, poetry, stab, true, war, war is hell
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Wind and Fire
“Distance does to love what wind does to fire… it extinguishes the weak and fuels the strong.” I love this saying and believe it to be true and profound. This was sent to me by the wonderful lady who married … Continue reading
Posted in Commitment, Courage, Loneliness, Love, Marriage
Tagged Afghanistan, friends, helicopter, loneliness, Love, marriage, sacrific, service, war
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I Just Returned from a Memorial Service of a Man I’ve Never Met
I just returned from a memorial service of a man I’ve never met. He was a distant relative of my elderly father-in-law who would not have been able to go if I hadn’t taken him. The deceased was born in … Continue reading
Posted in Family "Fun", Random Thoughts
Tagged 14-year-olds, Army, Bataan Death March, bus, Congressional Gold Medal, crime, death, father-in-law, George Washington, inerpreter, interrogate, interrogator, Japan, legacy, Martin Luther King, memorial service, MIS, Nelson Mandela, non-whites, public pool, School, secret, swimming, terrible, terrible crime, Tojo, Walter Tanaka, war, white, whites, WWII
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