FREEDOM

FREEDOM

Look as you drive into my town,
It’s seen there on the hill
for more than three years it has stood
but bright and shining still.
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It’s a sign of red, white and blue,
and reads “Support Our Troops”--
yet some here burn the Country's Flag,
What makes up such a group?
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The soldier does not want to fight
but takes life in his hand,
in defense of man's liberty
and honor of homeland.
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I am an army veteran,
Seven years a soldier
I risked my life for my country,
Unsure - I'd grow older.
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I came home at another time
when it was said we lost
but my brothers lost no honor
even if life – the cost.
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Many here didn’t welcome us,
Soldier’s hearts were broken
and now the groups form yet again –
to them, our Flag, a token?
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Lord, let it not happen once more,
that we should turn our back
and pretend groups didn’t demonstrate
‘gainst soldiers' in Iraq.
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No one has to want this damned war,
I mean, not even one
but burn not the flag that just might
drape a soldier's coffin.
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So you see I’m proud of my town,
The ground the sign sets on.
I know what the soldier fights for;
for the world its freedom.

3/25/07
Monty

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