The brave
\nby cricketjeff on September 11, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nSome soldiers follow orders without questioning the cause
\nPrepared to serve their country in its own or other’s wars
\nObedience unquestioned they are braver than the brave
\nBut the bravest need a reason for the sacrifice they gave<\/p>\n
Some soldiers think their leaders have an insight all their own
\nAnd mere mortals shouldn’t question just obey and then atone
\nThey will lay their lives down freely and they’ll kill without a thought
\nBut the bravest sort of soldier doesn’t count himself as naught<\/p>\n
Some soldiers follow blindly where their evil leaders lead
\nFighting phantoms for religion or to satisfy a greed
\nThey aren’t truly brave, they’re cowards, running scared of doing right
\nBraver soldiers who oppose them carry thought into the fight<\/p>\n
Some soldiers fight civilians killing those who can’t reply
\nMaking bombs beside a roadway throwing planes out from the sky
\nWe can’t claim that we are better if we turn and do the same
\nBraver soldiers aim their actions at the evil men to blame<\/p>\n
On such days as this remember that the best may not survive
\nBut they live inside the mem’ries of their friends who’re left alive
\nAnd give thought to those who bravely fight to see who’s left to save
\nWe must mourn for those departed and the bravest of the brave<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nWritten on the 11th of September.<\/p>\n
Not all soldiers wear uniforms or carry weapons, although I admire greatly
\nthose that do. Very often the bravest soldiers didn’t even know they were at
\nwar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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