MULDOON
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Subject: I Wish I Had Written This Poem!
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>
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> Eleven thousand soldiers
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> lay beneath the dirt and stone,
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> all buried on a distant land
>
> so far away from home.
>
>
>
> For just a strip of dismal beach
>
> they paid a hero's price,
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> to save a foreign nation
>
> They all made the sacrifice.
>
> And now the shores of Normandy
>
> Are lined with blocks of white:
>
> Americans who didn't turn
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> from someone else's plight.
>
>
>
> Eleven thousand reasons
>
> for the French to take our side,
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> but in the moment of our need,
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> they chose to run and hide.
>
> Chirac said every war means loss,
>
> perhaps for France that's true,
>
> for they've lost every battle
>
> since the days of Waterloo.
>
>
>
> Without a soldier worth a damn
>
> to be found within the region,
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> the French became the only land
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> to need a Foreign Legion.
>
>
>
> You French all say we're arrogant.
>
> Well hell, we've earned the right--
>
> We saved your sorry nation
>
> when you lacked the guts to fight.
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>
>
> But now you've made a big mistake,
>
> and one that you'll regret;
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> you took sides with our enemies,
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> and that we won't forget.
>
>
>
> It wasn't just our citizens
>
> you spit on when you turned,
>
> but every one of yours
>
> who fell the day the towers burned.
>
>
>
> You spit upon our soldiers,
>
> on our pilots and Marines,
>
> and now you'll get a little sense
>
> of just what payback means.
>
>
>
> So keep your Paris fashions
>
> and your wine and your champagne,
>
> and find some other market
>
> that will buy your airplanes.
>
>
>
> And try to find somebody else
>
> to wear your French cologne,
>
> for you're about to find out
>
> what it means to stand alone.
>
>
>
> You see, you need us far more
>
> than we ever needed you.
>
> America has better friends
>
> who know how to be true.
>
>
>
> I'd rather stand with warriors
>
> who have the will and might,
>
> than hudd! le in the dark
>
> with those whose only flag is white.
>
>
>
> I'll take the Brits, the Aussies,
>
> the Israelis and the rest,
>
> for when it comes to valor
>
> we have seen that they're the best.
>
>
>
> We'll count on one another
>
> as we face a moment dire,
>
> while you sit on the sideline
>
> with a sign, "friendship for hire."
>
>
>
> We'll win this war without you
>
> and we'll total up the cost,
>
> and take it from your foreign aid,
>
> and then you'll feel the loss.
>
>
>
> And when your nation starts to fall,
>
> well Frenchie, you can spare us,
>
> just call the Germans for a hand,
>
> they know the way to Paris.
>
>
>
> Please forward to all Americans, so they! will not
>
> forget.
>
>
>
> Eleven thousand soldiers
>
> lay beneath the dirt and stone,
>
> all buried on a distant land
>
> so far away from home.
>
>
>
> For just a strip of dismal beach
>
> they paid a hero's price,
>
> to save a foreign nation
>
> They all made the sacrifice.
>
> And now the shores of Normandy
>
> Are lined with blocks of white:
>
> Americans who didn't turn
>
> from someone else's plight.
>
>
>
> Eleven thousand reasons
>
> for the French to take our side,
>
> but in the moment of our need,
>
> they chose to run and hide.
>
> Chirac said every war means loss,
>
> perhaps for France that's true,
>
> for they've lost every battle
>
> since the days of Waterloo.
>
>
>
> Without a soldier worth a damn
>
> to be found within the region,
>
> the French became the only land
>
> to need a Foreign Legion.
>
>
>
> You French all say we're arrogant.
>
> Well hell, we've earned the right--
>
> We saved your sorry nation
>
> when you lacked the guts to fight.
>
>
>
> But now you've made a big mistake,
>
> and one that you'll regret;
>
> you took sides with our enemies,
>
> and that we won't forget.
>
>
>
> It wasn't just our citizens
>
> you spit on when you turned,
>
> but every one of yours
>
> who fell the day the towers burned.
>
>
>
> You spit upon our soldiers,
>
> on our pilots and Marines,
>
> and now you'll get a little sense
>
> of just what payback means.
>
>
>
> So keep your Paris fashions
>
> and your wine and your champagne,
>
> and find some other market
>
> that will buy your airplanes.
>
>
>
> And try to find somebody else
>
> to wear your French cologne,
>
> for you're about to find out
>
> what it means to stand alone.
>
>
>
> You see, you need us far more
>
> than we ever needed you.
>
> America has better friends
>
> who know how to be true.
>
>
>
> I'd rather stand with warriors
>
> who have the will and might,
>
> than hudd! le in the dark
>
> with those whose only flag is white.
>
>
>
> I'll take the Brits, the Aussies,
>
> the Israelis and the rest,
>
> for when it comes to valor
>
> we have seen that they're the best.
>
>
>
> We'll count on one another
>
> as we face a moment dire,
>
> while you sit on the sideline
>
> with a sign, "friendship for hire."
>
>
>
> We'll win this war without you
>
> and we'll total up the cost,
>
> and take it from your foreign aid,
>
> and then you'll feel the loss.
>
>
>
> And when your nation starts to fall,
>
> well Frenchie, you can spare us,
>
> just call the Germans for a hand,
>
> they know the way to Paris.
>
>
>
> Please forward to all Americans, so they! will not
>
> forget.