The One The only The BEB Angel's blog: "A Soldiers Mind"

What we all wouldn't give to wake up next to skin, Passionately kiss someone good morning? I am alone in the fact that I just won't sell myself out to anyone to get some form of completion? So I made a list of things I think most of us want..let me know what you think or if you have an add.... 1. Someone who we can talk to but who doesn't ask you 300 times whats wrong if you are not talking! 2. Someone that can touch you and drive you crazy. AKA: That person can gingerly kiss you or push you into wall and know exactly how to do it to drive you wild. 3. We all need sexual compatibility. Without physical intimacy all relationships are doomed! 4. Someone who accepts our faults, over looks them .. and occasionally can even make us see something more in them! 5. Someone with a sense of humor. A person who has a great balance of comedy and seriousness Ok so that is it for now....

They gather in this silent place and slowly bow each head A calliope of sobbing hearts paying homage to the dead Sadness never felt before covering each heart and face The storming sea of tears cease as the preacher takes his place In the distance they take there spot with esprit de corps and pride Paying homage to someone never known; a comrade still inside Small children and the elders who’ve aged all gather round a tent As through fleeting words awkward and quick; to higher prayers are sent A man steps up they’ve never seen; in his eye a tear Prepare yourself for our salute to a loved one you held dear In precision movement like a clock the players take their place Shots soon shake country side and send tears down each reddened face As they present the final salute and silently stand tall The music beating off the hill is each soldier’s final call Balloons released toward heaven some hold such loving memories Drifting toward zenith reminds them a loved one, whom no longer sees Moving in they take each place but not a word they make A loving dedication in each pristine movement they take Each fold so crisp and delicate and white gloved hands hold the stain For on the day a soldiers called home tears from heaven to earth will rain So accept this flag and allow your tears to flow Dedicated service they gave here, now onto higher they must go Though honor they have left with you, so your head you should hold high With a single white rose and tear lain down, time to say goodbye **No one will be forgotten SGT Daniel Weston Winegeart 10-17-06 SGT Dustin Adkins 12-04-06 SGT Christopher K Hill 11-3-03 SGT Dennis Curran 1-1-04 Miss you all!!!! R.I.P

A cry goes up, and out they go, the nation is at war With no demands, they pack their bags, and slowly close the door The wives they plead, and children cry, but daddy he must go Wars been raged, freedom challenged, and all the soldiers know The bullets fly, the briefly lull, this battles might is fierce Creeping low, then sprints to move, but through his chest was pierced The letters come, to love ones left, from daddy gone again Mothers cry, confused about, how long till the battles end A fear runs through, bodies shake, a telephones haunting ring Terrified, by what it hides, what message it will bring As soon as answered, the wife collapses, the children wondering why The telephone said, I'm sorry ma'am, your husbands no longer alive Now walking through, the garden of stone, it's a little more understood The grave stones speak, though mild and meek, it echos through the woods Your husband was brave, and welcome here, looked after he will be Just like the rest, who gave their best, to life and liberty At least you know, something small, you know where your loved one is lain There are many here, the precious stones, who never knew a name ***Written in 02 working in Arlington

A thankless job you toil through Day in, Day out below the blue No thanks from folks along the street No open arms or hugs that greet But tirelessly continuing on Working from the dusk until the dawn For countless days, months on end Our freedoms from below they defend Tall or short they are burrowed in Locked inside a metal skin Long at last to the surface the rise A hero in so many eyes So soon again the world rushes along and down into the below they go on Some I care about have served there too Protecting freedom from under the blue.

A friend of mine "Derg" posted a blog entry today that hit a sensitive spot inside my heart and so I am finally gonna voice a little bit of my feelings... IF THIS OFFENDS YOU...I AM NOT SORRY Sept 11th, 2001 the world I knew as a soldier changed more than I ever thought it would. Sure I woke up at the normal time, went for a run to the IwoJima Memorial and then I went to work. However, within the hour of showing up everything changed. Working in DC most of us were making cracks about the pilot of the first plane"what kind of an idiot","was the guy drunk?" Another plane hits and all of the sudden an alarm sounded on post "Please return to your companies immediately!" The pentagon itself had just been hit. I was 20 years old! Now here I sit almost 6 years later and it seems that everyday someone new has an opinion about the war. How our actions are illegal and immoral. How what we are doing here is wrong... WHY? Is it not also as wrong for people with anger to decided to kill thousands of Americans who they never even knew, who never fouled them in anyway? What did the 8 year old children that died that sept morning as their plane flew into the pentagon do to deserve that end result of their life? As a soldier/sailor/airmen/ or marine we are constantly slandered... Baby Killer, Murder, amongst many other names have echoed in my mind as I have heard them shouted at not only me but my friends and military family. These names do not hurt me or offend me but they do instill a slight anger at the un-enlightenment of people.. For a minute stop to realize that we give up our families, our dreams, our freedoms, and sometimes our lives to defend your abilities to protest our funerals, spit in our faces, and downgrade our worth daily. I do not hate those who protest for valid reasons ... what does cause me anger is the mis education that causes people to protest in such ways... As a soldier I never expect anyone to understand why I serve or live the life that I do but I would simple leave this for those who are not soldiers to understand.. 1) Leave a funeral alone. Wether you disagree with the military or someones choice of lifestyle a funeral is a time to say goodbye. It is a time for a family to grieve do not cheapen it as a source to spread your anger or propaganda. Would you protest a 20 year old who died of a drug over doses funeral or one involved in a hit and run? 2) Speak your mind! Everyone should but because my views may differ from yours do not say I am wrong or attempt to cut me down. I am not judging you based on anything other than how you treat me as an individual try to do the same! 3) Before you damn a military service member try to live their life...Take the people you love and pull yourself away from them for a year, miss birthdays, graduations, child births and deaths. Take the simple fact of a weekend and for 8 months work 12 hour shift 7 days a week... Now continue to have a smile! 4) The next time you see a flag... Remember you may not agree with our current conflict, you may not agree with a damn thing about our country but if American military members were not willing to die for it... Your RIGHT to BITCH would be GONE as well!!!!