In Uniform~OP Poets-Fighting for Freedom

These are my friends on this website fighting for freedom.
If you all know of anymore that is a poet here, please let me know.
thank you, please visit these poets.

John E WordSlinger
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http://www.originalpoetry.com/poet/mindless
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http://www.originalpoetry.com/poet/babygirl1
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Military Spouses
=http://www.originalpoetry.com/poet/TCDavis

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abraham is a impeccable warrior poet fighting for freedom.

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The house is so dark and cold....a very early hour on this Saturday in April. The windows had been left open last night and the cold air drifted in and wrapped itself around my nose and fingertips. I cradle my warm coffee mug, hoping it will coax these old hands to type. Far off in the forest I hear the angry conversation of squirrels who are busy building nests and getting ready for the arrival of their young. Birds are chattering in the tree outside my window and even in the dark, the world is still at work, a ballet that plays over and over every day without rehearsal and always deserves a standing ovation..

The phone rang, a call from the other side of the world. My oldest boy, his father's namesake, was calling to let me know that he will be deployed to Baghdad for 6 months. He will be leaving in July. This is his second tour of Iraq. The Air Force does 6 months at a time, thank God, and his unit is rotating some in and some out. Last time he went he tried to lie and say he was going to Saudi Arabia. I guess he knew I would lay down in front of the plane to stop him and he didn't want to be embarrassed....NY moms can do that....This always takes me back to the 70's and Viet Nam. Remember the body counts on the news? After a while no one reacted anymore. It is getting that way again....My son (and all other military personal) is a volunteer. I am so scared for him, although he is not patrolling or even in a unit that gets any action, (communications) there is always the danger. I am not pro war but I do realize that we need a military presence and in my heart I can't say to another Mom," not my son, send yours..." So I will hang my banner in the window once again, light the candle, and pray very hard for his safe return. Next time you talk to God, mention my son, he sure could use the support.

For Michael with Love....

Mlea2009
PS. just a note... he has been in Baghdad for almost 6 mos...

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I ask for blessings and safety for mlea and Michael with my appreciation and love.

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http://www.originalpoetry.com/poet/noreaga2882

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For Grito and WS, Many thanks for your thoughts and prayers for Michael and every other person involved in the war. As we sit home, comfortable in our easy chairs and point the remote at the Tv never let these soldiers be out of our prayers or far from our thoughts, Mary lea

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Mlea, our's are all impeccable warriors for God and they bring honor to God, this greatest of countries and to their families. I hold all warriors in a very special and highest of regard, as I do their families. I think many others agree.

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http://www.originalpoetry.com/poet/Laubster

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Read at Your Own Risk-OP Poets-Fighting for Freedom

Please read this one, a very crucial poem by Troubador, ty WS


http://www.originalpoetry.com/read-at-your-own-risk

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http://www.originalpoetry.com/poet/kittman101

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[/url]Here is something to bring a smile to your face, ty for all that you do, WS & Maddi

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http://www.originalpoetry.com/poet/countrychaos

http://www.originalpoetry.com/poet/countrychaos

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With This Dance You Are My Country (sonnet)

With This Dance You Are My Country (sonnet)

Oh excellence we shall dance on the floor of fear
There are great things in life I am not allowed, and
I hear the call, despite anger and distress. Lear
me with my own lamp to light the way, I command
myself to overcome any darkness I am to face
Foundations of prayer, faith on faith, yes I do breathe;
And love where I only can relax and erase
all of these thoughts, sticky webs of mankind’s thick weave
For I reject, and I am convinced that freedom
for all is what thickens this blood, to hear infants
cry, to see the mother’s nurturing our kingdom
The ballroom of war sways, in sync and infantry,
orchestrated by this belief, Oh Country hear
On excellence I shall dance on the floor of fear


http://www.originalpoetry.com/with-this-dance-you-are-my-country-sonne

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armymom1025,
posted, thanks to her son and may more we have freedoms in poetry.
http://www.originalpoetry.com/my-son-the-soldier

Gun Poets That Sang-Fighting for Freedom

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/adkins-trace/arlington-15317.html

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A Warrior's Poem Murder--So Foul

Members of the 104th Infantry marching though the snow soon after their attack of Christmas day.
Photo courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.


A Warrior's Poem: "Murder--So Foul"

I shot a man yesterday
And much to my surprise,
The strangest thing happened to me
I began to cry.

He was so young, so very young
And Fear was in his eyes,
He had left his home in Germany
And came to Holland to die.

And what about his Family
were they not praying for him?
Thank God they couldn't see their son
And the man that had murdered him.

I knelt beside him
And held his hand--
I begged his forgiveness
Did he understand?

It was the War
And he was the enemy
If I hadn't shot him
He would have shot me.

I saw he was dying
And I called him "Brother"
But he gasped out one word
And that word was "Mother."

I shot a man yesterday
And much to surprise
A part of me died with Him
When Death came to close
His eyes.
(c)Sgt. James Lenihan

James Lenihan of Brooklyn, New York, wrote a poem at his despair after killing an enemy soldier in World War II.

Poem Source: and Poem Story:
Poems have even been written about and to James Lenihan.
These two links have many comments on this poem by US Soldiers, and more.http://www.dcoe.health.mil/blog/article.aspx?id=1&postid=102

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/28/soldier.poem/index.html

Lenihan said even though the incident in the poem took place more than 60 years ago, it still resonates and should be a lesson to young soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan that they aren't the first to face such emotional turmoil as this.

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OP We Got One

Meet-Jon Talbain and his quote

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If you feel so filthy, so dirty, so fucked up...If you feel so walked on, so painful, so pissed off... you're not the...the only one refusing to go down

http://www.originalpoetry.com/poet/JonTalbain

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Past, Now, Future...

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This ,your thread, is both terrific and terrifying . John! But it is a worthy tribute to those who are prepared to kill or to die for the values that seem to mock at us with blood-thirst -------------unattainable peace, blinded justice , unpredictable survival and false liberty.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGzuvmut3Hs

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/adkins-trace/arlington-15317.html

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What mean these whited stones
Raised above the grass
On fllowered meadows wide and large?
Can tears or pride bring back those fellows
To warm the wounded bosoms of their lovers?

Why mark the spot where dry bones lie? .
For what insane reason did they die,
Great hearts in young and valiant breasts,
Dressed in gaudy dress paraded.
Were ordered to rot as sacrifice. .

Humanity's face is rouged with blood,
She feeds on the errors of men;
How foul is her ruthless breath
She breathes o'er the wasted graves . .

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Great Movie Buy It

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