From Boot Camp to the Grave

I was singing these lyrics in the car yesterday, since much of the now-on-CD-music of my younger years is now in regular rotation ( since I was a Clash and 'no peace - equal rights & justice' type back then ).
It tore me up to realize that the brave kids who share my blood are being offered up now, and will potentially be a well of resource, since I have such a very large and of-draft-age-family.
It brought back visions of my mother being so nervous over my brothers and I, whenever we were sent here or there. She would tell me of her nightmares & how she'd sit up at night to avoid them . . . . we all came back & have prospered. We 'counciled' our youngbloods on the same blueprint to success......they're following it now, to our very mixed emotions chagrin.
Let's get our leadership issues worked out in this country, because there is no greater pain than for a parent to outlive their kids.........we're handing out too much of that type of anguish for it not to karma us back in a big way.

BOB DYLAN - License To Kill Lyrics

Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he
please
And if things don't change soon, he will
Oh, man has invented his doom
First step was touching the moon.

Now there's a woman on my block
She just sit there as the night grows still
She say who gonna take away his license to kill ?

Now, they take him and they teach him and they groom him for
life
And they set him on a path where he's bound to get ill
Then they bury him with stars
Sell his body like they do used cars.

Now, there's a woman on my block
She just sit there facing the hill
She say who gonna take away his license to kill ?

Now, he's hell-bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused
And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill
All he believe are his eyes
And his eyes, they just tell him lies.

But there's a woman on my block
Sitting there in a cold chill
She say who gonna take away his license to kill ?

Ya may be a noisemaker, spirit maker
Heartbreaker, backbreaker
Leave no stone unturned
May be an actor in a plot
That might be all that you got
'Til your error you clearly learn.

Now he worships at an altar of a stagnant pool
And when he sees his reflection, he's fulfilled
Oh, man is opposed to fair play
He wants it all and he wants it his way.

Now, there's a woman on my blocks
She just sit there as the night grows still
She say who gonna take away his license to kill ?