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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397539" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Anecdote of a coin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I placed a coin <br>upon a railway track<br>while training at Klipdrift army camp<br>to go to war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The coin was flattened<br>and stretched two centimetres long<br>and pressed upon<br>the image of the track.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">More trains passed day and night<br>and the coin remained<br>as part of that rail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It never would transform back<br>to a round and shiny thing<br>and have the capacity<br>to buy anything.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was transformed from boy<br>to man and matured<br>before the end of spring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I became a killing machine<br>and lost humanity<br>and learnt to stay alive<br>while passing through<br>ash holes and obstacles<br>with live bullets whistling past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The battle raged in Namibia<br>and into Angola<br>where I was taken<br>to the gates of hell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sentence lasted a full two years<br>and much longer still, <br>as after the initial stint<br>and while being a civilian<br>every year the call up papers<br>for another camp<br>of a month to four<br>kept coming in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flown from Waterkloof Air force base<br>to Youngsfield in the Cape, <br>transported to base, <br>issued and barbered and indoctrinated<br>and sent by rail to De Brug, <br>armed and motorized with armour<br>and send by road to Luthatla<br>to be trained in<br>and then to war<br>and if alive <br>back home again<br>was like a endless cycle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How could I come back from war<br>and killing<br>and shell-shocked and a little mad<br>be human<br>and live a life again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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The coin was flattened
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More trains passed day and night
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