By Leora Posner
Copyright 2002
Your 18th birthday Away from home
Fort Benning Combat Training tired, alone.
Chose this life of service with morning P.T. done
Life had new meaning it was nine one-one
Just another birthday another year
It defined your life and the nation you hold dear
Pray you'll be followed
By other Patriots true
I feel safer knowing
You Serve the red, white, blue
Just your little sister old enough to know!
Could lose you instantly wherever you may go
They woke sleepy dragon
Now the Eagle flies
You graduated Airborne
The war bird in your eyes