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Old 03-30-2004, 22:02   #1
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Poetry is for Fags

Just to aggravate the Team Sergeant a little. LOL

Short verses instilling warrior spirit if you please. Please attribute appropriately.
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Old 03-30-2004, 22:03   #2
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Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

Isaiah 6:8
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Old 03-30-2004, 22:03   #3
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THE MASTER OF THE CARAVAN
But who are ye in rags and rotten shoes,
You dirty-bearded, blocking up the way?

THE PILGRIMS
We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go
Always a little further...


The Golden Journey to Samarkand - James Elroy Flecker 1884-1915
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He knows only The Cause.

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Old 03-30-2004, 22:07   #4
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ok, not poetry, but inspired by the 2 food threads...


"If they wanted me dead, they were going to have to put out more effort than merely watching me starve."
James N. Rowe.
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Old 03-30-2004, 22:11   #5
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I'm the 82nd Airborne, this is as far as the Bastards are going! Pfc. Haught 325GIR in the Ardennes 1944
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Old 03-30-2004, 22:14   #6
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LOL - GREAT Stuff, boff of em.
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Old 03-30-2004, 22:15   #7
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Fate slew Him, but He did not drop --
She felled -- He did not fall --
Impaled Him on Her fiercest stakes --
He neutralized them all --

She stung Him -- sapped His firm Advance --
But when Her Worst was done
And He -- unmoved regarded Her --
Acknowledged Him a Man.

--Emily Dickinson


If that's not the description of a soldier, I don't know what is.


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Old 03-30-2004, 22:18   #8
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Ok, Dan, maybe I need to change the titl...Never mind.

BTW, disclaimer: The title of this thread in no way implies any disrespect to the gay community in general or sacamuelas in particular. It refers to the Brit term for cigarettes.
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Old 03-30-2004, 22:19   #9
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Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
~ Homer

"We have shared the incommunicable experience of war; we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top."
~Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr. "The Solider's Faith"

"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."
~Thomas Jefferson

"There is a sobbing of the strong, And a pall upon the land; But the People in their weeping, Bare the iron hand; Beware the People weeping, When they bare the iron hand."
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Old 03-30-2004, 22:23   #10
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"Molon Labe!"

Spartan General-King Leonidas to Xerxes, the Persian Emperor who came with 600,000 of the fiercest fighting troops in the world to conquer and invade little Greece
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Old 03-30-2004, 22:23   #11
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"Life is no life to him that dares not die,
And death no death to him that dares not live."

-- Sir Henry Newbolt.
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Old 03-30-2004, 22:24   #12
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Go tell the Spartans, travelers passing by, that here, obedient to their laws we lie.

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"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

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"Freedom is a two edged sword of which one edge is liberty and the other responsibility, on which both edges are exceedingly sharp; and which is not easily handled by casual, cowardly or treacherous hands. For it has been sharpened by many conflicts, tempered in many fires, quenched by much blood, and although it is always ready for the use of the courageous and high hearted, it will not remain when the spirit that forged it is gone."

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Old 03-30-2004, 22:26   #15
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"There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
Niccolo Machiavelli
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