Written for friends in the Guard/Reserve that I...
"Why Daddy?" my baby asked...
Green is their color
Proudly they wear it...
I have a brother
not much older...
I,Steven Patrick Gallenstein,
do solemnly swear that I will support and defend...
This isn't exactly a poem. It's something my...
A soldier does not ask why...
I have cried and wept,
believed and had faith...
Bullets and rockets on rampage
Claiming innocent human lives...
We crossed the German border
And pressed on to the war...
I carry a gun and have killed men before,
It's not very fun to walk through that door...
Cover your gun you can't cover your head.
Anyone can follow you until you are dead...
A silent fog covered battleground
has endured war's devastating round...
We break laws we must atone
Are the laws written in stone...