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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398874" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My buddies (a reply to Boris Slutsky)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All young white men at a time<br>was forced into the military, into war<br>or had to serve a three year jail term</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and most of my buddies came home, <br>but some did not: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Parachuting into a enemy camp<br>there was one close friend that died, <br>the other three I hardly knew<br>and to the government it was<br>an incidental small thing against<br>seven hundred and fifty <br>enemy SWAPO and Cuban casualties</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and on one patrol one close buddy <br>stepped on a landmine<br>were blown up and no one else was hurt, <br>and to the government it was<br>an incidental small thing against<br>the enemy that had lost <br>little lest than a full platoon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Angola when we met enemy armour, <br>turned FAPLA / Cuban divisions <br>under Soviet leadership into junk</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw a Ratel armoured car<br>that was trapped in a landmine field<br>that had been shot out <br>with the holes <br>were enemy tank projectiles went in<br>and every one inside was burnt, incinerated<br>if not blown to bits, turned into ash</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and it had been only one of eleven<br>armoured cars <br>and troop carriers that was lost<br>some of only thirty-one soldiers dead<br>but there was pain that flashed through me<br>when I saw it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and to the government it was<br>an incidental small thing against<br>four thousand seven hundred and eighty five killed<br>on the Cuban/FAPLAN side,94 tanks <br>and hundreds of enemy combat vehicles destroyed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and now no one thinks <br>of the sacrifice that all of these soldiers made, <br>of the hundreds of thousands <br>of returning citizen force soldiers<br>who were nuts, bomb happy <br>with post traumatic stress syndrome<br>or whatever you want to call it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as to the government it is<br>an incidental small thing, <br>that happened in a distant past<br>as if the ex-soldiers are non-existing, <br>even seen as apartheid criminals by some.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: Buddies here used as name used in the South African Defence Force for comrades. Ex-soldiers here used instead of war veterans, as in African circles the word war veterans has got a new derogatory meaning connected to it. My Comrades by Boris Slutsky.]</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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