Mess Tent bombing, Mosul, Iraq December 21, 2005

the soldier was called

to go to Iraq

he fought proudly

for he loved his country

he thought of his family

and friends back at home

nobody knew how far he would go

would he last?

nobody knew

he was eating lunch

and the bomb blew

he ran from the mess hall

another soldier in hand

his partner couldn't walk

he was wounded pretty bad

the soldiers ran fo cover

many killed and badly injured

but they both made it alive

one saved another's life

the soldier was called

to go to iraq

a soldier was called

vut a hero came back

Author's Notes/Comments: 

my uncle, SSG Mark Mulvaney, would've been in the mess hall at the time of the bombing but he was on emergency leave because of his father's death..his plane took off just as the bomb blew. that mess tent, in particular, was the same tent my uncle went to lunch at every day.  one of the people on his squad was hit in the leg by a bomb and another soldier carried him out.

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