Death…the Game • The Havok Journal

Dust covering my face
Medevac just took off
Soldiers dead
I wonder, why not me

My mind in a daze
What just happened
Why did we switch roads
At last second

It’s death, The game we play every day
The guilt remains
Why not me
I wonder, why not me

Sirens screaming in the dark night
Child hit by a stray bullet
Innocence shattered
I wonder, why not me

Mother screaming, “My baby, my baby”
Death is in the air,
I feel it,

It’s death,
The game we play every day,

I wonder, why not me,
Death replies, “Not yet… ”

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BAGHDAD – After popping a smoke grenade to signal where medevac helicopters should land, Sgt. James Wendling, a team leader from Mansfield, Ohio, assigned to D Troop, Division Special Troops Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, runs to reassure a simulated casualty during training at Camp Slayer, here, Sept. 22, 2009. Source.

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