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Air Assault
AIR ASSAULT Thumping down the valley floor-- Contour flying--open door. Squadron's choppers in a line, The Air Assault goes in on time. Heart is pumping--temples too, Cobra Gunships--standing to....
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America the Beautiful
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good...
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The Star-Spangled Banner
THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER Oh, Say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,...
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A Cigarette Comrade
A Cigarette Comrade A cigarette comrade-- before I die my face is torn and my eyes are gone but if you hold it to my lips I can still draw the flame. It matters not comrade-- that we are foe I'm...
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Soldier's Farewell
Soldier's Farewell I've saddled up, and dropped me hooch, I'm going to take the gap, my Tour of Duty's over mates, and I won't be coming back. I'm done with diggin' shell scrapes and laying out barbed...
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In Flanders Fields
IN FLANDERS FIELDS In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We...
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Kiwi Peacekeepers
Kiwi Peacekeepers There's death all around me, there's death in the air, I can smell it and feel it--and I know now the fear. The road could be mined, or an ambush await, it may be the end--our...
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The Last Anzac
The Last Anzac They buried Doug Dibley today, a fine old gentleman who died in his sleep, at Rotorua on a hot December afternoon. No warrior's death for him on Walker's Ridge, where the poppies fed on...
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South Pole Station
South Pole Station One day at the South Pole a plane touched down, and I got out, and I stood on the ground. And all about me the earth was still, not a bird in the sky, not a tree or a hill. Just...
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Spirit of Anzac
Spirit of Anzac They clad us in the colours of the forest, and armed us with the weapons made for war. Then taught to us the ancient trade of killing, and lead us to the sound of battles roar. So give...
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