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CCKen

My Brothers in Arms,

I really enjoy Mark Knopfler's genius. Here's a YouTube video of Mark's Brothers in Arms. I've included the lyrics below because you can't understand a word he says in this video. This song is for all the Brothers that didn't come home....from all wars.

Read the lyrics then watch the video.

Ken

Mark Knopfler – Brothers in Arms



These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms

Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battles raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms

There's so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones

Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms

kevin

Its been over twenty years since I've been in the e-club at Camp Hanson on Okinawa, but this has always stuck with me.
Painted on one of the walls is a silhoutte of a Marine carrying a wounded Marine over his shoulder, with the caption below -
"He ain't heavy...he's my Brother."