Defunct Soldier
When I met him he was an homeless old soldier, one who has
fought
every war in the last hundred years, cannon, fodder for big
business
and those who say that our society needs to be saved from
migrants.
The last war he
fought was in Fallujah this time he was an American
soldier who believed in the righteousness of his mission, only
to find
when he came home and demobbed, he was alone in a world that
took no interest in his war of freedom.
Undeterred he went to Afghanistan and fought there, another
war that
had no meaning other than keeping licensed warriors in
employment.
The common soldier is forty and never rose above the rank of
sergeant,
old soldiers are not officer material, they just go on
fighting were they
are sent, and sadly since the world War Two there has not
been a honest
war, but that is not the concern of the nameless soldier who
every year
in Paris, we put
flowers on his grave.
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