Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: Gen. [David] Baker composed a poem while

in Viet Cong captivity that he wrote down after his release, which thanked God for keeping the camp's seven men alive despite Communist brutality. It concluded by imagining the day they would be freed:

"We will be a little older, but much more wise,
And I don't mean from listening to Communist lies.
If there is one thing upon which seven men can agree.
That one thing is: Freedom is not free!"

from The Washington Times: Gen. David Baker dies at 62

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