The day they knocked the Towers down
He thought he heard his nation's call
He signed his name on the dotted line.
Off he went to train for war.
Just five days into his first tour
insurgents, in a fire fight,
put a bullet in his spine
in a war commenced by George's spite.
He never after walked again.
He felt a burden to his wife.
Time and time again
he lay beneath a surgeons knife.
Until at last he said "enough"
I've had enough of this half life.
No food or drink would he accept,
his only path to that good night.
Before the soldier's "final tour"
Before he joined our honored dead.
He wrote a letter to George Bush
and this is what the soldier said:
Ten years have passed now since the day
a bullet left me half a man.
A victim of an unjust war.
Your vendetta I can't understand.
I hope someday you can accept
some blame and guilt for all your crimes.
For spending young Americans
on bootless wars in foreign climes.
A soldier wounded in the early days of the Iraq war writes an open letter condemning George Bush for the Iraq adventure. The soldier, rendered a paraplegic is committing suicide by hunger strike. this is based on a true story