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I played with army men as a boy in my backyard

I was18 when I joined the National Guard

I cakewalked basic and they paid for my degree

All for filling up sandbags and clearing storm debris

I had just re-upped at the base in my hometown

But the whole deal changed on the day that the planes went down

Just a casual soldier, 12 weekends a year

I was Baghdad bound when they called up the volunteers

We’d seen more than enough to know that war is hell

But we were thinking that we had it made once the capital fell

We partied in the palace while we waited to withdraw

'Til things started going south both sides of the wall

First the looting, the suicide bombers and IED’s

Then the prisons, the torture and all those pictures on TV

The kickbacks, the blackouts, the martyrs and the fear

Now everyone in Babylon blames the volunteers

We hit a roadside bomb on a convoy late one night

I was fine but this buddy of mine probably should have died

They radioed a Medevac and I tried to keep him warm

Now he’s back home learning how to feed himself with two new arms

And there are others who suffer from wounds that you can’t see

So they try to forget and go back home to their jobs and their families

Yeah, we got paid, no one made us come over here

But it ain’t close to an even trade for the volunteers

Maybe we’ll all be judged by history and God

Maybe the best way to honor the departed is to finish the job

But while they argue who’s winning, and whether we should go or stay

Over here it’s a victory just to make it through another day

Me I’m long past making any sense of the blood I’ve spilled

It’s hard to believe all this is part of any God’s will

And if you find I’ve fallen after all the smoke has cleared

Let the record show

I volunteered

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