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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398618" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Johnny Goes To War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the age of eighteen<br>just after writing his final matriculation exam, <br>Johnny is called up to do military service<br>and when the pickup on the farm<br>have two flat tyres<br>and Johnny cannot get to the station in time, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">he is fetched by three broad shouldered <br>military policemen who initially <br>want to arrest him<br>and shove him into a waiting military pickup van.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the army he receives food<br>that gives him stomach flue<br>and for the first week <br>is almost stuck to the loo<br>and the mash potatoes <br>coming from a packet as powder, <br>runs into everything and has no salt in it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while the Colonel, the officers<br>and non-commissioned officers<br>have a feast in their mess, <br>having roasted beef and chicken<br>and eat as if they are truly blessed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and his hair is cut just above the scull, <br>he’s forced into an overall, <br>feels and looks like a criminal<br>while the instructors, the officers<br>and commanders wear normal uniforms</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he is chased up and down, <br>has to run to some trees<br>three kilometres far and back, <br>to bring a leave<br>and every time it’s not the right one</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the passing black citizens<br>at the railway tracks and on the road<br>shake their heads<br>and think that white men are nuts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Day and night the instructor <br>slanders and curses at him, <br>he is put on duty <br>to guard armoured cars and trucks, <br>forced to run with poles and truck tyres<br>and to be just like his fellow military men, <br>even his girlfriend’s love letters, <br>are read by the instructor to the rest of them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he is given a rifle and taught to love it, <br>while the instructor makes sure<br>that he knows the difference<br>between his rifle and his gun</div><div style="margin:10px 0">he is forced to sleep with it like a fiancé <br>while movement and fire tactics<br>is being drilled in, <br>while life bullets whistle past him<br>and a bit later he knows about hand grenades, <br>mortars and rockets</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then he is shipped out<br>by train, truck and helicopter<br>to the war on the border<br>to meet the enemy<br>who is waiting for him</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and while on patrol with some Unitas<br>he faces Cuban armour, a huge battle tank<br>and fires a rocket propelled grenade<br>at point blank range straight at it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the trooper next to him, <br>looses his head, it’s blown off<br>and Johnny is scared out of his wits, <br>wishing to be dead<br>but forced into another firefight instead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When after two years of being a soldier<br>he gets home <br>Johnny is totally nuts, bomb happy<br>and nobody knows him<br>when to his mother, his girlfriend <br>he is is somewhat strange<br>while life in the town goes on<br>like it did before </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and Johnny becomes a farmer<br>and trusts in the Lord, <br>cares for his cattle and sheep<br>and not one night he can sleep right through, <br>without having a nightmare</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the president PW Botha, his whole cabinet, <br>the military officers have a great life, <br>ignores his mothers letters, <br>doesn’t care about her tears, <br>about Johnny’s state of mind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and before long<br>he is called up for a military camp<br>and when he doesn’t appear<br>he is fetched by the military police<br>and sent back once more <br>to war, to killing and death.</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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Johnny is called up to do military service
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have two flat tyres
and Johnny cannot get to the station in time, 

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