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Freedom isnt Free
« on: July 03, 2013, 06:06:47 PM »
Freedom isnt Free

I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.

A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.

I looked at him in uniform;
so young, so tall, so proud.
With hair cut square and eyes alert,
he'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought how many men like him
had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil;
how many mothers' tears?

How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?

NO, FREEDOM ISN'T FREE!

I heard the sound of Taps one night,
when everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.

I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant 'Amen.'
When a flag had draped a coffin
of a brother or a friend.

I thought of all the children,
of the mothers and the wives,
of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.

I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea.
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.

NO FREEDOM ISN'T FREE




Enjoy Your Freedom



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Re: Freedom isnt Free
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2013, 06:12:24 PM »

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Re: Freedom isnt Free
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2013, 06:58:18 PM »
All right dude enough. You are actually gonna make me cry.

"I’m fearless in my heart.
They will always see that in my eyes.
I am the passion; I am the warfare.
I will never stop...
always constant, accurate, and intense."

  - Steve Vai, "The Audience is Listening"

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Re: Freedom isnt Free
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2013, 07:00:12 PM »
:thumbup:

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Re: Freedom isnt Free
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2013, 07:03:44 PM »
All right dude enough. You are actually gonna make me cry.


I did

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Re: Freedom isnt Free
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2013, 07:05:22 PM »
All right dude enough. You are actually gonna make me cry.


I did

I don't want to. >:( I won't. :-\
"I’m fearless in my heart.
They will always see that in my eyes.
I am the passion; I am the warfare.
I will never stop...
always constant, accurate, and intense."

  - Steve Vai, "The Audience is Listening"

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Re: Freedom isnt Free
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2013, 10:12:26 PM »
 :2thumbsup:

Very true. 

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Re: Freedom isnt Free
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2013, 05:44:08 AM »