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JEREMY STAINTHORP BERGGREN

I wrote this after thinking a lot and hearing a lot about veterans that weren't combat, or in country, etc. were called "fake." Not like fake you didn't serve...but fake like your service has no merit. My issue was, and is, that most of us don't really have a say with where our orders tell us to go, or even if our MOS is changed mid-service, you just do what Uncle Sam says...

 

REAL VET, FAKE VET
 

Real Vet, Fake Vet, Fake Vet Dead
Real Vet bleeding, Fake Vet red
Real Vet deployed into Iraqi sand
Fake Vet stateside, Djibouti, 'ghanistan
Real Vet, Fake Vet, Fake Vet Dead
Real Vet Orders, Real Vet Borders
Fake Vet stoploss, Fake Vet Dead
Fake Vet soldier
Fake Vet sailor
Fake Vet airman
Fake Vet marine
Fake Vet pog
Fake Vet green
Fake Vet nondeployed
Fake Vet lusting
Lusting for war
Real Vet silent
Real Vet loud
Real Vet medic
Real vet proud
Real Vet kill
Real vet lines
Lines in the sand
Real vet alone
Fake vet near
Lines in the sand
Lines of fear
Real Vet, Fake Vet, Fake Vet Dead
Real Vet dying, Fake Vet red
Real Vet in Iraq
Real Vet did attack
Real Vet followed orders
Into illegal Iraqi borders
Fake vet Japan, Germany, and here
Fake vet waiting
Waiting for orders
Both Vet discharged
Lonely
Not normal
Fake Vet nightmare
Real Vet disorder
Fake Vet raped
Real Vet who
Fake Vet me
Real Vet you
Real Vet Fake Vet Fake Vet Real
How much time 'til all Vets heal?

 

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