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I Joined Up!

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I Joined Up!

I joined up!
Gonna fight those bastards!
We'll show them!
They can't mess with Uncle Sam!
No way!

I joined up!
My brother did
He was killed last year
Gotta do it for my brother
Gotta do my part

I joined up!
Judge gave me a choice
Jail or the army
Hey, how bad can it be?
Better than jail, right?


I joined up!
Like my father
And his father before him
It runs in the family
It's a tradition

I joined up!
They say you can
Learn some skills
Bring em home for later
Have a better life

I joined up!
I'm proud
I love my country!
Don't want em comin over here
Messin with my family!

I joined up!
Wanted some action
I was bored at home
Wanted to test myself
And kick ass!

I joined up!
I'm a little nervous now
My mom cries a lot
I tell her I'll be fine on my new legs
I'm still glad I went

I joined up!
Wish those bastards
Who protest would just
Shut the hell up!
Faggots!

I joined up!
Wish I knew then
What I know now
Maybe things would have been
Different

I joined up!
I'm sorry
I didn't really want to hurt
Anybody
Will God forgive me?

I joined up!
Don't ask me about it
I don't want to think about it
Just want to get on with my life
OK?

I joined up!
Gonna march tomorrow
No, not off to war
Gonna march with the civies
Gonna march for peace

 

Jim Bush is a 61 year old, Vietnam-era veteran, currently living in Katy,Texas. He was raised in a military family. His father received the Silver Star for directing troops while under air attack at Clark Field in the Phillipines, survived the (more...)
 

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Say no to war

Some people respond to war like the author. Others respond to war in different ways. I watched a conversation between two high schoolers last week during a class room work period; they were partners on a project, and the girl could not get herself organized. Her partner, a boy, asked why she was so uncharacteristically disorganized. She replied that her brother had joined the USMC and is shipping out to Iraq from Camp Lejeune and they had 72 hours to get together and say goodbye and she couldn't get her mind off of the upcoming visit. The boy replied, "I will never go to Iraq. I will go to jail and take it in the butt before I go to Iraq and take a bullet. I feel so bad for your brother." Can you imagine how hard it was for that girl to hear such a remark? Those two pupils have known each other since early elementary school. The GOP war in Iraq has already wrecked Iraq and is now spreading a corrosive apathy that will destroy our country, too. Robert Chapman Lansing, New York

by Robert Chapman (28 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 556 comments) on Sunday, Mar 5, 2006 at 2:26:19 PM

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