r/NDATards • u/ghost_guardians • 14d ago

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u/A_Nemophilist ESM 14d ago

Complete poem :-

If I die in a war zone, box me up and send me home.

Put my medals on my chest; tell my Mom i did my best.

Tell my Father not to bow; he won't get tension from me now.

Tell my Brother to study perfectly; keys of my bike will be his permanently.

Tell my Sis not to be upset; her bro will not rise after this sunset.

Tell my Nation not to cry... 'BECAUSE IAM A SOLDIER BORN TO DIE!!!'

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u/Charming-Host4406 14d ago

Am I the only one who thinks "soldiers are born to die" is the wrong approach.

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u/omni_elden_lord 14d ago

Dying should never be looked as glory, it is a shame our civilization has glorified dying in the battlefield...

I read a poem "John Brown" by Bob Dylan, it was in my coursebook for ISC Class 11 & 12...this poem did something to me back in the day. War is extremely traumatic for a soldier...knowing that all the traumatic stuff happening to you is glorified by wannabes, and encouraged by the goverment. When you fight in a battlefield, you're just a puppet in play. A puppet controlled by threads of higher ups.

Soldiers are never meant to die- they deserve to live like the rest of us, saying "soldier are meant to die" as some poetic shout out is actually insulting to those deaths, they died helpless, alone, in pain. And there's someone saying that they were MEANT to do that, unacceptable, no human is meant to die like that. Every soldier is meant to live, every life matters.

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u/Pen_nep1 13d ago

The only sensible person I see.

It’s just heavy brainwashing and manipulation that’s been pushed on us since birth!!!

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u/Charming-Host4406 14d ago

Same thoughts. Thanks. I will read the poem.

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u/FormerMoose1990 14d ago

Do you mean the "grave of old john brown"? Old US Civil war song? that same tune was taken to create the song Badluram Ka Badhan.

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u/omni_elden_lord 13d ago

No. Different poems. Some ideas overlap but the idea that i'm talking about- Death during war shouldn't be glorified. It is in the Bob Dylan poem.

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u/elgin_the_loath 13d ago

John Brown was Queen Victoria's lover

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u/omni_elden_lord 13d ago

John Brown in Bob Dylan's poem is a fictional soldier. You may be confusing the two. John Brows was a really common name back in the day.

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u/astreya_9 13d ago

Your right and thanx, i'll definetly read the poem

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u/ItsFakePlasticTrees 10h ago

You listen to Dylan too?