<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569702" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Purple Heart and the Bagdad Five</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Broken hearts when you went away<br>Serve government and God they say<br>Deploy to where they need control<br>Weekly recon; daily patrol</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Way too much down time, to hang out, <br>Barrack’s, trailers or where’s about<br>War-play videos or read smut, <br>Text your baby 'one-liner' hug</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Loneliness factor to this game<br>Then flash, a bang, blackness and pain<br>Just outside a missal explodes<br>Shrapnel and rocks unleashed payload</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rippled effect plows, through it all<br>'What just happened, I don’t recall.”<br>Legs got ripped and blood did flow<br>Rattled, undefined, kind of slow</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Specialist here, the doctor knows<br>The head aches pound and do not go<br>Blurry, fuzzy, walk like a clod<br>Simple concussion note in log</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Heroes here for doing your part, <br>Service help, and a Purple Heart.'<br>Remember precedence they say<br>Purple hearts not ‘Kerry’ away</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Best treat it quick before harm done<br>No token heart, help doesn't come<br>Bagdad Five were hurt that day<br>Lawsuit is pending so they say</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pat on the back, then redeployed<br>How many out there, half destroyed? <br>Half-witted soldiers with a gun<br>Purple Hearts broken all undone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=P.A.+Donohue">P.A. Donohue</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=569702" data-title="Purple Heart and the Bagdad Five de P.A. Donohue" data-description="Broken hearts when you went away/Serve government and God they say/Deploy to where they need control/Weekly recon; daily patrol/Way too much down time, to hang out, /Barrack’s, trailers or where’s about/War-play videos or read smut, /Text your..."></div> </div> </div>

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