Author and Motivational Speaker

WHAT A SOLDIER GIVES

Take a man and put him alone,
Put him thirteen thousand miles away from home,
Drain his heart of all but blood,
Make him live in slime, shame, and mud.
That's the life we had to live,
And why my soul to GOD I give.

You peace boys talk from your easy chairs,
But you don't know what it's like out there.
You say you want to ban the bomb
And there is no war in Vietnam.

Take your pills and have your fun,
Then refuse to lift a gun.
Well, I'll hate you till the day I die.
You made me hear my buddies cry.

I saw one's arm a bloody shred,
I heard them say, "This one is dead."
My own leg's hurting awfully bad,
Still, today I'm very sad.

It's quite a price he had to pay
So you might live another day.
He bought your life by giving his,
BUT WHO GIVES A DAMN
WHAT A SOLDIER GIVES?

You have never lived until you have almost died.
For those who have fought for it, LIFE has a flavor
the protected will never know.

Written by David L. Hartline
in a Vietnam field hospital.
October 1968

                               



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