"None with a pure heart ever dies in vain / Leaving our dreams behind us as we go"
War Sonnet
Blessed are the dead who feel no more pain We were trusting and easily misled Lied to we went chasing falsified goals Along with thousands and daily more dead By little antichrists who sold their souls A long time ago but how could we know Our leaders had been leading us astray?
We never would have enabled their lies If we had known then what we know today But now as you read this one of us dies
None with a pure heart ever dies in vain Leaving our dreams behind us as we go Now we will never be misled again Blessed are the dead who feel no more pain
+Steven Curtis Lance
Copyright MMVI + Semper Fi
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Reviewed by Flying Fox Ted L Glines (Reader)
Reviewed on December 25, 2006
Will we walk this way again, perhaps as we walked this way before, as the age-old battles rage and new flags are raised forever. As you so aptly said "Blessed are the dead...." Semper Fi to you my friend, and Merry Christmas!
Ted
Regis
Chrissy