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Array ( [sid] => 125863 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => A Soldier in Iraq [time] => 2006-09-17 17:12:10 [hometext] => I wrote this trying to imagine how our soldiers might feel being in the war and away from home and loved ones. [bodytext] => To a soldier here in Iraq,
it's not the war, I dread or fear.
Nor how soon, I may face the enemy.
It's the waiting, and the silence, for
the mail I don't receive, from my loved ones,
that help keep my mind at ease.
I think of home, and family there, and wonder,
what they'd do, if someone bombed
the country,
that we love, dear, and true.
I don't like the job I have, but I give thanks,
to God in heaven, that I'm not fighting
on American soil.
I wonder, if they have forgotten me,
now that I am gone, and wonder, when I'll
next receive, a letter sent from home.
You wonder, how I know so much,
of what they think and do.
Well, I'm still sitting here,
in Iraq, and
I am, that soldier to.

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A Soldier in Iraq

Contributed by kiabunch on Sunday, 17th September 2006 @ 05:12:10 PM in AEST
Topic: Patriotic

To a soldier here in Iraq,
it's not the war, I dread or fear.
Nor how soon, I may face the enemy.
It's the waiting, and the silence, for
the mail I don't receive, from my loved ones,
that help keep my mind at ease.
I think of home, and family there, and wonder,
what they'd do, if someone bombed
the country,
that we love, dear, and true.
I don't like the job I have, but I give thanks,
to God in heaven, that I'm not fighting
on American soil.
I wonder, if they have forgotten me,
now that I am gone, and wonder, when I'll
next receive, a letter sent from home.
You wonder, how I know so much,
of what they think and do.
Well, I'm still sitting here,
in Iraq, and
I am, that soldier to.

Copyright © kiabunch ... [ 2006-09-17 17:12:10]
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Re: A Soldier in Iraq (User Rating: 1 )
by Lionel on Sunday, 17th September 2006 @ 05:26:27 PM AEST
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Good poem. A good example of what a soldier there may be thinking. Though I've heard on TV that most of them believe in their mission there.

Re: A Soldier in Iraq (User Rating: 1 )
by ever1der on Sunday, 17th September 2006 @ 05:40:26 PM AEST
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good way to put yourself in their shoes.

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