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We Got the Call for Christmas Day |
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We got the call for Christmas Day
Our final chance
civilian to play
Soldiers we know, to war we go
To
save the desert sand from men.
I thought how, as the day
had come
To serve in protecting freedom
We'd be gone,
who knows how long
Help keep producing oil to send
And
in despair I bowed my head
"There is no peace on earth,"
I said,
"For hate is strong and mocks the song
Of
peace on earth, good will to men."
Pierced the alarm more
loud and deep:
"Our little children left to weep
The
wrong shall fail, the right prevail;
Some peace on earth,
good will to men."
Till another man shall say,
The
world revolved to night from day,
A slap, a pull, a round
in line
Defend the earth, from evil men. |
By Mark I. Kirkmeyer
Copyright 2001
Listed
December 24, 2012 |
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About
Author...
Mark Kirkmeyer served as a Light Weapons/Medical Specialist in the U.S. Army (1983-88), the U.S. Army Reserve (1988-1992), and the California National Guard (1992-1995). He is Gulf War Veteran (1991) and served in Korea (1986-87).It is illegal to
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