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Buyer of Freedom
War.
That was my distant past.
I have gone through it.
Gambling life or death.
The Vietnam War, that was my war.
But, I wasn’t just a name on a wall.
Freedom, that’s what I was fighting for.
I was a soldier.
I gambled for freedom.
But, it wasn’t an easy journey.
I risked my life every day for this country that
we call the USA.
Until I was shot in the shoulder trying to save one of my friends.
Though, he still got shot in the head and, died instantly.
I went to the hospital and received a Purple Heart.
I am not going back.
I purchased freedom from a seller of fate and,
fate took hold of my friend with it’s cold hand.
You know the saying “Freedom ain’t free.”
That is true.
I am a buyer of freedom.
I am a veteran.
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