Washington D C. United States
Every man has a duty when he gets older,
to become a true American soldier.
So...
Like dad,
at eighteen years old,
I went to war.
I went to the jungles of Vietnam
and died for the country that I love.
I knew it was coming.
We could smell the death when we landed;
every night we prayed to God to make it home alive.
I, unfortunately,
did not.
Shot dead in the jungle;
didn't see it coming.
When I died,
the angel that was sent for me,
asked me,
if I felt regret that I had died as a soldier.
And the truth is, I do.
I killed innocent people.
But I am a soldier, not a killer.
I will always fight for what is right;
as righteousness is all that's worth fighting for.
And the truth is also that I don't regret it.
For I am a true American Soldier.
I loved my homeland and had a duty to defend it;
so I enlisted to go to war.
I did not know...
I did not know what hell really was.
I was only a kid.
I did not know how kings played their game.
I did not know my true enemy.
I did not know myself.
What I knew was I wanted to fight for what is right.
That's how I would spend my short life;
and you would aspire to be a true American Soldier.
-K.Rngo
For every human that has died as a result of an international conflict.
