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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397742" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cassinga</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just like spring when the blue sky is full of falling leaves, <br>there are three hundred and seventy parachutes that decent, <br>on a ominous day <br>with enemy AA-guns reporting<br>and the enemy are more <br>than a thousand and a half in number.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The barrels of the enemy AA-guns are lowered, <br>to break us <br>and the enemy tries to sow havoc <br>and to decimate us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enemy snipers are shooting from trees<br>and from everywhere <br>there are shots being fired, <br>that munches pieces from us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From behind ruins<br>we fire almost endlessly <br>at trenches where some enemy soldiers hide <br>and launch mortar bombs <br>all over the place, <br>while bullets are coming down like rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We return heavy fire <br>to the enemy at the AA-guns, <br>while other soldiers replace them<br>which keeps the battle hanging in balance</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shot after shot are being fired<br>and the smell of death<br>is strong in the air<br>and there’s nowhere <br>for the enemy to escape to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The last resistance disappears<br>and there’s apparent peace<br>and dead enemies everywhere<br>and some of the bats, <br>get into pumas <br>and the rest of us wait <br>with nowhere to go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The border is too far to walk<br>and there’s nothing to drive away with, <br>when Cuban tanks and armoured cars <br>find us there.<br>.<br>With RPG-7 iron fists <br>four tanks are destroyed<br>and a landmine stops another tank in its tracks, <br>but only paratroops against oncoming armour<br>are canon feed <br>and nothing diminishes the danger<br>of a Cuban mechanized battalion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till two Mirages destroys ten armoured cars <br>and everywhere there’s smoke and dust<br>and a Buccaneer comes from the sun, <br>to let moments turn into eternity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time after time <br>it flashes by and fires its rockets<br>at the oncoming tanks<br>and with no ammo left, <br>dives fearlessly over shooting AA-guns<br>to make the tanks take cover.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s very ruff going<br>but the last pumas land <br>in a clouds of dust, <br>to evacuate us<br>while enemy tanks keep firing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I try and hold the rearguard with a LMG<br>before the shot out ruins fades away from me<br>and we leave forty living enemies behind<br>and all of us are safely gone, <br>but for four brave men <br>whose lives are spent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: AA-guns=> Anti aircraft guns. Bats=>Parabats=>Airbourne soldiers. RPG-7 iron fists=> Rocket propelled grenade launchers=> Bazookas. Mirages=> Mirage fighter jets. Buccaneer=> Buccaneer ground support bomber. Pumas=> Puma helicopters. LMG=> Light machinegun.]</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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and the enemy are more 
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