This is written by a very dear friend of mine. Boondocker is the name that he goes by....
Semper Fi.....
A Veterans Prayer
Dear God
It’s happening again,
No, not in the jungles of Vietnam
But on the burning dunes and cities
Built on the oil rich Iraq sands
Each day
There’s more loss of life
Being sacrificed in that far off land
Young men and women bleeding on foreign soil
For what Washington, DC calls an American stand
Dear God,
Your old veterans hearts
Are beginning to break
For innocents committed for righteousness sake
That will sadly take a war to win,
Dear Lord…
I fear that our dark history
Is showing its ass again
How many of Liberty’s Son’s will it take?
To liberate a land that doesn’t care
While they rant and rave telling us
That they don’t want us there ......
To them human life is nothing more
Than a cheap, expendable,
commodity of war
Dear God,
Who do we, as Vietnam veterans believe in?
We know that the news media bold face lies,
We who fought in Vietnam remember
The double talk it took to keep that war alive
We understand what deceptions about
Coupled with misinformation and false body counts
Chemical agents that didn’t exist
Knowing now how hopeless it was to resist
Being told when and how to fight
Not even to fire when our enemy was in our sights
Expecting any moment that a sapper could pull a pin
That’s what we called terrorism then
And the death of one soldier was tragic and a sin
But now, as it was then, its becoming commonplace again
So God,
I’m asking you to please,
To wake up the comatose leaders of this great land
And to hold our warriors in the cleft of your mighty hand
To brand your wisdom on the hearts and minds
Of the powers that be
That they may truly see,
That our nation could not bear at all
Another fifty thousand names chiseled
Into yet another cold stone, Memorial Wall
Boon,
9/20/03
