<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414080" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Initiate 2008</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reveille sounds a trumpet call<br>Rise from your beds reluctantly<br>This wake up call applies to all.<br> Strident with authority.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We do things militarily.<br> You will now wash and shave your face<br>You signed on voluntarily<br> and now you have to earn your place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A raw recruit’s of little use <br>still tainted by civilian ways<br>A subject for stripeys abuse.<br>Of sympathy there’s little trace, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For drill instructors have no hearts.<br>Their job to turn boys into men<br>Reveille sounds and the day starts, <br> Your protests must remain unspoken.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You’ll be harassed from morn til night.<br>Your only duty to obey.<br> Until you learn to get it right <br>and do things in the army way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you survive and make the grade.<br>One of the few the very few<br> to reach the passing out parade.<br>Your parents will be proud of you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though it was tough you had enough<br> pride in yourself to stick it out.<br>Showed you were made of sterner stuff<br> than those who failed without a doubt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You proved yourself to be a man<br>So wear your uniform with pride, <br> you earned the right. You know you can <br>succeed although you were sorely tried.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You did what you set out to do <br>achieved the goal you had in mind <br>You toughed it out and saw it through. <br>Now you can leave boot camp behind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In coming years you will recall.<br>When you must face the enemy <br>and see your fellow soldiers fall.<br>Your boot camp days nostalgically.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">25-Aug-08</div><div style="margin:10px 0">http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=414080" data-title="Initiate 2008 de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Reveille sounds a trumpet call Rise from your beds reluctantly This wake up call applies to all. Strident with authority. We do things militarily. You will now wash and shave your face You signed on voluntarily and now you have to earn your pl..."></div> </div> </div>

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