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sidsledge || travelin' soldier by the chicks

(many thanks to my beloved tierney @kbsd for the sidsledge clip reel <3)

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good luck, babe! back in my single era

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lover 😔😔😔 you should’ve come over 😔😔😔

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my friend started watching gen kill because i suggested it. do i marry them yes or no?

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I enjoyed these people and their outraged responses of "Of course it's plagiarism and WTF?!?! I would expel my students for that" and I thought you all would too.

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top three runner conley normal moments

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generation kill | rotten apple

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to be loved

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ELI CAME BACK FROM IRAQ

Written by Andrea Gibson January 2006

Eli came back from Iraq
and tattooed a teddy bear onto the inside of his wrist
above that a medic with an IV bag
above that an angel
but Eli says the teddy bear won’t live

and I know I don’t know but I say “I know”
because Eli’s only 24 and I’ve never seen eyes
further away from childhood than his
eyes old with a wisdom
he knows I’d rather not have

Eli’s mother traces a teddy bear onto my arm
and says not all casualties come home in body bags

and I swear
I’d spend the rest of my life writing nothing
but the word light at the end of this tunnel
if I could find the fucking tunnel
I’d write nothing but white flags
somebody pray for the soldiers
somebody pray for what’s lost
somebody pray for the mailbox
that holds the official letters
to the mothers, fathers, sisters and little brothers
of Micheal 19...Steven 21...John 33
how ironic that their deaths sound like bible verses
the hearse is parked in the halls of the high school
recruiting black brown and poor
while anti-war activists outside walter reed army hospital
scream 100, 000 slain…
as an amputee on the third floor
breathes forget-me-nots onto the window pain

but can we forget what we never knew

our sky is so perfectly blue its repulsive
somebody tell me where god lives
cause if god is truth
god doesn’t live here
our lies have seared the sun too hot live by
there are ghosts of people who are still alive
touting M16s with trembling hands
while we dream ourselves stars on Survivor
another missile sets fire to the face in the locket
of a mother who’s son
needed money for college
and she swears she can feel his photograph burn

how many wars will it take us to learn
that only the dead return
the rest remain forever caught between worlds of
shrapnel shatters body of three year old girl!
and…
welcome to McDonalds can I take your order?
the mortar of sanity crumbling
stumbling back home to a home that will never be home again
Eli doesn’t know if he can ever write a poem again
1 third of the homeless men in this country are veterans
and we have the nerve to “Support Our Troops”
with pretty yellow ribbons
while giving nothing but dirty looks to their outstretched hands
tell me what land of the free
sets free its 18 year old kids into greedy war zones
hones them like missiles
then returns their bones in the middle of the night
so know one can see
their deaths swept beneath the carpet and hidden like dirt
their lives promises we never kept

Jeff Lacey came back from Iraq
and hung himself in his parents basement with a garden hose
the night before he died he spent forty five minutes on his fathers lap
rocking like a baby
rocking like daddy save me!
and don’t think for a minute he too isn’t collateral damage
in the mansions of Washington
they are watching them burn and hoarding the water
no senators sons are being sent out to slaughter
no president’s daughters are licking ashes from their lips
or dreaming up ropes to wrap around their necks
in case they ever make it home alive
our eyes are closed america
there are souls in the boots of the soldiers america
fuck your yellow ribbon
you want to support our troops
bring them home
and hold them tight when they get here

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runner showing up on the hospital ship and softly announcing his presence to leckie with an inside joke is crazy romantic can we please get into it....

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You see these stripes? I'm an NCO just like you. I have work to do.

Annie Parisse as Lena Riggi in THE PACIFIC (2010) ↳ Part Eight: Iwo Jima

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how he looks at her when she's not looking 💙

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Eugene Sledge & Robert Leckie in THE PACIFIC (2010) Part 10: Home

“I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget.” - Eugene Sledge, With the Old Breed. “That is why there are no glorious living, but only glorious dead. Heroes turn traitor, warriors age and grow soft—but a victim is changeless, sacrifice is eternal.” - Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow.

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Joe Mazzello as Eugene Sledge in The Pacific (2010)

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JAMES BADGE DALE as ROBERT LECKIE THE PACIFIC · part four

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Doc Bryan & Jack Abbot

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