[Webmaster's note: I'm playing some timestamp games to keep this post and the two below it in chronological order near the top of the site for a few days. Please read them from top to bottom. Newer posts will appear below in normal "blog" order. This was originally posted 2006.07.13.10:08.]

On Flag-Draped Coffins

I thought I'd seen it all I guess
In videos from the East;
Enough to tell me nothing less,
We're dealing with a beast.
Such savagery and blood lust,
Sawing off our soldier's head,
Ensures to me that we must
Leave all these bastards dead.

And yet may God preserve us
From those too weak to serve,
Faint of heart, afraid of service,
With no will to save, preserve.
They shriek about the troops lost,
Deplore our mounting dead,
Ignoring what our freedom cost,
In the steps our nation tread.

Now when their country needs them
To mount a solid front;
They'd sacrifice our freedom
For the power they so want.
On flag-draped coffins standing,
Crassly using our dead brave,
To our enemy they're now handing,
What those dead fought so to save.

Some day there'll come a reckoning, a payment for the pain,
To those who used our dead so ill, for naught but power's gain.

Russ Vaughn

Contributed by Russ Vaughn on July 18, 2006 at 02:58 AM in Best of Old War Dogs, Media Perfidy, Poetry, Russ Vaughn | Permalink

Comments

Posted by: Anna

Very powerful!

Posted by: Anna | Jul 14, 2006 1:12:34 PM

Posted by: 1st Cav

"Some day there'll come a reckoning, a payment for the pain"

You got that right Russ! Excellent piece. John Fkn Kerry is just one on a long list of mine. Murtha is another on my list to defeat in the upcoming election.

Posted by: 1st Cav | Jul 15, 2006 1:27:21 PM