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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436752" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Am A Veteran</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a veteran.<br>Once a young patriot who had volunteered, <br>To join the military.<br>And it was clear a sacrificing of my life, <br>Was a possibility.<br>And yet the thought of it did not frighten me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a veteran.<br>I did not decide, <br>To slide over onto Candadian borders...<br>Thinking I could avoid my responsibility.<br>With an escaping of a draft I did not receive.<br>I wanted to protect those deserving of freedom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a veteran.<br>One of the Vietnam War Era.<br>I didn't walk the halls of an Ivy League college.<br>To party in between studying for a degree.<br>No! <br>But I did take college courses and studied diligently, <br>While also performing my military duties.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a veteran.<br>One who is Black 'and' American AND proud to be.<br>But as a veteran I have learned, <br>The battles I continue to fight...<br>Are needlessly fought on the streets of my own country.<br>With people who did not serve a duty at all...<br>But feel they are more deserving of entitlements, <br>And a respect not shown to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes...<br>I AM a veteran.<br>But yet I am expected to support, <br>Those who feed their greed.<br>As I am perceived, <br>Not to be worthy! <br>And so hard it is for me not to believe, <br>The color of my skin is the reason for that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a veteran.<br>Conditioned to aware of the facts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q>
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Once a young patriot who had volunteered, 
To join the military.
And it was clear a sacrificing of my life, 
Was a possibility.
And yet the thought of it did not frighten me.

I am a veteran.
I did not decide, 
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