When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains

[Ichingcarpenter]

The Young British Soldier

Rudyard Kipling

If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it's ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier . . .

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!

When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East
'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast,
An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceased
Ere 'e's fit for to serve as a soldier.
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!

Now all you recruities what's drafted to-day,
You shut up your rag-box an' 'ark to my lay,
An' I'll sing you a soldier as far as I may:
A soldier what's fit for a soldier.
Fit, fit, fit for a soldier . .




NOW WHO WILL WRITE THE NEXT VERSE FOR THIS CENTURY?

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Sneer." - The McChryster (R)

[tekisui]

2. More US have been wouded this past year than in the previous 8 combined.

http://icasualties.org/OEF/USCasualtiesByState.aspx

[bemildred]

3. That's pretty much what COIN gets you.

You can kill lots of them, or they kill lots of you, or you can leave and the killing goes way down.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Fuck!

:grr:

[amborin]

5. more killed than in any terrorist attack; we're funding the war lords, madness.....

[VMI Dem]

6. But Obama is making brilliant political moves.

[unhappycamper]

7. Yes, but

we still have a trillion dollar a year military budget and two ongoing occupations that are costing us $200 grand a minute.

[Amonester]

10. The real Rulers want Their Empire maintained...

While Rome is burning. They don't care for its small people.

[Mimosa]

11. 'trillion a year military budget'

Imagine what that money could have done to help people and regrow the economy.

[Kalun D]

8. Warriors (Thin Lizzy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3jWd8Ibifw&feature=rela...

I am the warrior
I serve the death machine
Losers or conquerors
All flash past on my silver screen

Death is no easy answer
For those who wish to know
Ask those who have been before you
What fate the future holds

It ain't pretty...

I am a messenger
The message here, you must know
I am the warrior
I deliver the fatal blow

So fate will have to wait
Till time can heal the scar
My heart is ruled by Venus
And my head by Mars

[hobbit709]

9. Nothing has changed in 150 years.

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. dupe delete double good sorry Winston

[Ichingcarpenter]

13. Nothing except the new queen they fight for

Imperialism was wrapped around the queen in jingoistic rhetoric
now days its really the same old same old but for a different trading company