<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399589" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The honest truth about soldiering</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here I am to confess that <br>patriotism and glory during wars<br>are just lies coined by politicians<br>who haven’t got the guts<br>to even kill a fly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then expect young men <br>from the population<br>to kill, to maim and to destroy<br>and at the same time<br>to still stay sane</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and here’s the honest truth: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to be forced into war at a pauper’s wage<br>and imprisoned if not<br>to go through countless hardships, <br>at the hands of a selected mad few<br>and then to be able to survive only <br>by taking some killing shots<br>kills the child, destroys the man<br>leaves only the bomb happy soldier behind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who will never be the same again<br>and nothing can make him<br>continue as before<br>or can cause the past to reappear</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: Tell Us The Tricks by Paul Scott.]</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399589" data-title="The honest truth about soldiering de Gert Strydom" data-description="Here I am to confess that patriotism and glory during wars are just lies coined by politicians who haven’t got the guts to even kill a fly and then expect young men from the population to kill, to maim and to destroy and at the same time to s..."></div> </div> </div>

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