<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443259" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>That Terrifying Enemy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two weeks after I graduated from high school, <br>I was in the Air Force.<br>Patriotic and eighteen.<br>Scared as hell during basic training...<br>But ready to kick plenty of ass! <br>And working hard during the week, <br>To receive a weekend pass! <br>Time seemed less urgent then! <br>We knew we would accomplish things! <br>And certain we were we would win! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fourty-three years ago...<br>I wanted it known I wished to save souls then.<br>I wanted to be a pilot and fly, <br>But I became a poet with a pen! <br>And times have changed since then as well! <br>Now it is not clear, <br>Who is fighting for what and 'why' it should matter? <br>We have consciously let our treasured ideals...<br>Lose it's appeal to keep falsities, <br>In minds scattered! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those with barely any military experience at all...<br>Have taken my home, <br>And given it away.<br>For a price we all now pay! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Greed has been that terrifying enemy, <br>That has brought upon us a failure.<br>Greed has been that terrifying enemy, <br>That has brought to us this grief! <br>Greed has been that terrifying enemy, <br>That brings us no relief... <br>To cease and/or free us! <br>Greed has been that terrifying enemy, <br>That has been camouflaging peace! <br>And the awareness of this has increased!</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> <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=443259" data-title="That Terrifying Enemy de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Two weeks after I graduated from high school, I was in the Air Force. Patriotic and eighteen. Scared as hell during basic training... But ready to kick plenty of ass! And working hard during the week, To receive a weekend pass! Time seemed les..."></div> </div> </div>

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