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| Come For Me |
| Twenty years in the jungle has taken it's toll on me.
I'm not the same man I used to be. But one thing's consistent ... I long to be free. Please, Mr. President, come for me. The scars of my torture will never go away. I'm fifty pounds lighter. My hair is gray. But the shackles can't chain the freedom in me. Please, ("mighty") lawmakers come for me. If my family believed there's a chance I'd survived, They'd fight to their deaths to prove I'm alive. Please, lovin' family, come for me. Some captors say you don't know I'm here, That I'm doomed to this prison year after year. God Bless America, the land of the free. Please, friends and parishoners, come for me. Other captors say you know that I'm here, But refuse to accept the evidence, so clear. Will some caring citizen hear my plea? Please, fellow countrymen, come for me. I'll have faith in my country 'till my dying day. I'll never believe you could leave me this way. My Country, 'tis of thee ..... Please, please, America, come for me! |
| -- by LeAnn Thieman, 1987 |
| "The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional as to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were Treated and Appreciated by their Nation." -- George Washington |
| "A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have." -- Theodore Roosevelt |
| "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." -- John F. Kennedy, in his Inaugural Address on January 20, 1961 |
| "As an American asked to serve, I was prepared to fight, to be wounded, to be captured and even prepared to die, but I was not prepared to be abandoned."
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| "The POW experience is like having a serious wound that eventually heals but leaves a permanent ugly scar. We who have survived do not consider ourselves as heroes...only survivors...If there were any heroes among us, it was those who perished...Those who gave up their tomorrow's so we could have our today's."
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| "The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
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