Band of Brothers.

So cold you cannot speak.
So much of a message,
you cannot speak.

Cold and miserable,
and some girl,
broke up with you.

Lord you're a soldier.
Lord you're a soldier.

Is there anywhere in history?
Where men were
A band of brothers?

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It touched me very much,
the amount of youth and bravery,
to win one battle
for freedom.

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I suppose it does sound silly and cliched,
The fact that Americans
have given their lives,
For what was considered,
Freedom.

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Was it freedom?
Was it a case of people giving their lives for freedom?
Or was it a one conspiracy vesus another?
I'd like to think it was all for "freedom".
But then why did the OSS or later the CIA take so many Nazis to the US?

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One of the many charges from the ZULU filmwww.youtube.com...
Apparently at one point the charge didn't stop and became serious.

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Joseph Conrad's character Marlow could only say: "The horror, the horror".
I'd like to ask soldiers now, what can one describe: freedom or horror?
I suppose allied soldiers WW 2 were the ultimate soldiers, because their cause was so clear-cut. Despite their horrors their cause was always supported. I wonder if this made them luckier than what was to follow?

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Yes, thank you mods, it is a better category, and I would very much appreciate it if any former soldiers would comment, or leave a bit of a narrative.
I'm still surprised sometimes, how much silence surrounds war.
Even a "just" war.

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Well, this is more what I grew up with, and the US war against the Soviets and Cubans: www.youtube.com...