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The love and slow death of a marriage...Our Backgrounds before we met... / I'm an only child born in Montana in 1983, from a divided home. Parents divorced at seven, Mom was unstable and unfaithful. Dad obtained custody of me and we moved to Oregon Coast to live with my Grandma. I had unhealthy visits and relationship with Mom thereafter. My Grandma died at 12 and at 13 my Dad remarried an alcoholic woman, I had a strained relationship with them until adulthood when she stopped drinking. I had exposure to trauma; alcoholism, mental illness, verbal abuse and juvenile troubles. I rebelled by using drugs in my late teens and early twenties, I lived on my own for a few years after high school but had little direction. / My bride is the eldest with two little brothers, parents stayed in same area of Portland during childhood with lots of family support and her parents stayed married. They had Christian values but some anger and anxiety issues at home. She was sexually assaulted at 17 and never had good closure with this. She told me her parents didn't provide her enough help with things like this growing up. Status quo was the backbone of the family dynamic, challenging emotions were discouraged. She rebelled by being reckless with herself, financially and sexually. She decided to join the Navy at 19. She lived alone briefly, but mostly with Grandparents & Parents before our marriage.

@Patrick_Austin66

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WaitingI'll be waiting, / for the day we become one / I'll be waiting,

@aylin-soto-aleman8

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"Ballad of the Silent Few"In towns where poppies gently fall, / And bugles sound the mournful call, / We praise the brave, the bold, the true—

@ThePoppiesStillBloom30

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SOLDIERING ONI am not just a person in / a uniform, I am a Soldier. / Every time I arise, I obey;

@belemascribbles42

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I'm coming homeI remember leaving / I'll not forget the in between / There's nothing in the world

@roger-turner42

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The Barrel Of The GunThe seconds, *hours* / The world in a **shroud.** / There's no where to *run*

@shashank-yathindranath17

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suburbia.It was in a small town where I first felt love. / It was in our small town from nowhere where I first saw that smile; / that smile that could light up a room, or the whole world, even.

@candidlykate20

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D-DayShoulder to shoulder you bands of brothers landed. / Code name Operation Neptune was underway. / You noble breed, not knowing what lay ahead

@Camellia-japonica22

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Brave Little SoldierBrave little soldier who answered the call. / Brave little soldier, / Who must be bold and strong.

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HeroBe my Hero, my protector. / The one I can run to when / I need a shoulder to cry on.

@aylin-soto-aleman10

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Military BillMilitary Bill -your solid soul hold still, / Flashes, pings, cracks, echoes… / And solid soul hold still,

@david-john-mowers20

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Basic Training - Day OneMy feet are flat, my eyes are bad / It hurts for me to run / "you've checked out fine" the doctor said

@roger-turner46

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Untitledoppression reigns / from above / unseen hellfire

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Pineapples Poemloved seeing your face / knowing you fell asleep when you normally don’t / hearing your laugh

@siann-choate72

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"Raised in a Ditch."Born of a binary, / black/white, / white/ black.

@austin-heath48

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HighschoolWhen I met you I thought my life would change / I thought my life would have meaning / I thought I was becoming a man

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military bratswe were small children when we grew up / wishing our parents would talk *to* us about the beloved Constitution, / not *at* us

@aranciolightning77

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Weeping GunMy palms are growing wet / Sweat has covered my trigger / Night and day in enemies nest

@victor-ernest-osong20

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mellowwar is mellow / is the deepest of lies / nothing takes you away

@evolutionxry28

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Seize the Dayradio playing, laughter transforms / into screams, metal crunching and / closing in, a flash of red hair,

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Becoming A SailorTo join something that unites / A brother and sisterhood / Together for eight grueling weeks

@bethany-woolsey27

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Pain killerIn the ***** fields the red plant glows / Shining bright row by rows / Highlighting our opiates blight

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From Blue to GreyMy eyes are the same color as the ocean he left me for.

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America Dreamin'I need no Dreams... Those of life prove nothing but the smoke of poppies., And those of my slumber.! ? ! ? . Too Now, too Here, too Raw. My Past haunts too well, a discontent. / So sweet as that pipe is....on a river of ending. / Sold Soldiers Lament

@Alexander-Hamilton3

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Texas Nights*Thick neck / Big fat gut / Hide of a mule

@alan-s-bailey15

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