Dear Mr President

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Dear Mr. President,
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I’m a soldier with the 82nd 
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Airborne stationed overseas.
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My family and my friends all pray 
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that God is watching over me.
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Even God can’t save us now.

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Mr. President, I’m writing you this 
poem,
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And I’ve sent along this picture 
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of my family back at home.
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I hear my heart beat loud in 
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these killing fields alone.
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I always hit my target; I just miss 
my happy home.

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When will be the end of this all?
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Tell me, when will be the end of 
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this all?
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Now that our back is against the 
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wall.

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Whoa, oh yea

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I joined the army like my father 
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did and his father did before.
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I saw Army green and canvas look 
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like perfect art of war.
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The images I see now are like ones I
 saw before.
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How am I a hero if I don’t know what
 it’s for?

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Days are getting longer, nights I 
never get to sleep,
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And I just had a newborn daughter 
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that I hope I get to see.
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I’ve got bloodshed on my 
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conscience; she’s so innocent and 
free.
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I just killed some baby’s father, 
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better him instead of me.

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When will be the end of this all?
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Tell me, when will be the end of 
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this all?
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Now that our back is against the 
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wall?
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Mankind is getting small.

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Before the war, life it was 
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beautiful, we marched out in the 
sun.
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Now it’s stars and stripes at 
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funerals, our darkest days have 
come.
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Dying in this combat zone, it scares
 me half to death,
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‘Cause if I don’t make it to 
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heaven, what’s to live for after 
death?

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I’ve seen mothers of the friends 
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I’ve lost out marching in a crowd,
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‘Cause their sons wear purple 
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hearts inside their coffins in the 
ground.
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When they left for war, they 
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thought their mommies would be 
proud.
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When they faced off with their 
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enemies, they fought to take them 
down.

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Hatred is tearing us all apart,
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Separation is tearing the world 
apart,
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Corruption is playing its part.

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