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- Letter
Eight
To the family
I’ve turned my back on all of you and for this I should
be proud, for once I have begun to notice a greed that
has spread around. You all thought that you deserved
even more, much more than what you’ve got. Well in some
cases this may be true but an idiot I am not. You all
believe in the truth a line you all made up, but the
truth you think about me won’t fill a paper cup. Mom and
Dad are gone today and we miss them this is true, but
before mom had even left this world I had good reason to
turn my back on you. Now some want to be a family again
and bury the past, but I see it in another way and those
that wear a mask. I’m not sure on why I write this poem
or why I waste my time, for the value of life given me
I’ll get change back from a dime. So go your way and do
what you feel but remember one thing is real, I will
never again play your game of “Let’s Make A Deal.
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The Woodsman 11/17/07
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I Am A Vet Who has Something
to say
(From The
Woodsman’s Notebook)
I am a vet who would like to say something about
the illusive term “patriot”.
Ever since I was a little boy the red, white and
blue always had a special meaning to me. What I
see when I look at my flag of red, white and
blue I see my grandfather with the United States
Navy in World War 1 fighting Freedoms Call. I
see my father who was also with the United
States Navy in World War II and then invited to
join Korean War. I see friends and relatives who
didn’t come home from Viet Nam with the same
gratitude as our fathers before us; instead it
was ridicule, strange looks and turned up noses.
This we did not get just from the “younger
generation” you remember those who protested
“Peace not War.” I personally had to keep quiet
and still at the sneers and jeers from the
elderly as well while I was in uniform. I was
asked one day from a friend of mine in Canada
Why I support gun ownership. I asked him if he
ever spent anytime in the military. His answer
was No he didn’t believe in War. So I gave him
my answer; Number 1, my constitution’s Bill of
Rights states I have the right to bare arms.
Number 2, unless you were in an active military
or a victim of a crime where a gun was
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