The Indelible Stain Of A Life Cut Short

Fighting out of the red corrrrner
At an undisclosed weight
we have...
Canada's vicarious Vets!
Fighting out of the blue corner,
Julian Fantino's a no show, yet!

Hollywood made pop-war sexy,
Not - big pop, like Coca-cola or Pepsi;
Pop, as in popular!
Like the German made Steiner binocular!

Everybody idolizes the action war hero
Come home with trauma; then you're a zero
It has to be the same as in the cool movie!
Immortalized by serving in the line of duty.

Politicians hold up our vets like shields,
To deflect from the profit dirty war yields,
And the public is so far off in left field
They think big pharma can make a mental wound healed.

Imagine risking it all for country
Then arriving home to being impoverished and hungry
It's a good bet

Julian Fantino Minister of Veteran Affairs
Canada

The wealthy hawks never wanted you back!
Better you dead,
Than their kid in some sack;
Or worse yet, on crack.

They romanticized war
The road home not paved
They invested in the corps
That cost a soul, not saved.

What's the going rate for a life these days?
Ask them in Fallujah how much it pays.
The cost of Iraqi kids catching some strays?
While California kids are just catching rays.

Say you take a kid,
And let her blow out her brains,
How can bloody hands,
Ever get out the stains?

Canadian Veterans Vimy Ridge

Jacques Nadeau