Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 1:42 PM

 Hello everyone,
Some of y’all are military and some aren't, but I'd like to share this  with all of you. Since I've been in Iraq, from my company I've had two of my battle buddies killed in action, and one is still currently a POW. I was on  mission one night and just started writing and ended up with my tribute to them. It's just a short poem but I'd like to share it with you.

 After spending many months,
 a year in Iraq.
 I can't beleive it,
 I'm finally heading back.
 Thoughts of pride and happiness,
 should be running through my head,
 but instead, as I lay in bed,
 I wonder why I am not one of the dead?
 Why may I go on,
 living everyday.
 While some of my friends,
 they had to pay.
 They paid deaths toll and gave their soul,
 So that a foreign land could be free.
 And while I feel pride that I stood by their side,
 I wonder how can this be?
 Krause was a gentle giant,
 who would never hurt a fly.
 Surely someone so gentle,
 didn't deserve to die.
 Then there was Goodriche,
 who was a genious in his own way.
 He was always waitin with a challengin conversation,
 to start out your day.
 And we'll never forget Maupin,
 Who's held somewhere amidst the sand.
 Held captive somewhere in,
 this cruel desert land.
 I ask why is Maupin captive?
 Why is he still lost?
 And why did so many others,
 have to pay freedoms cost?
 I ask God why,
 why did this have to be?
 Why did they have to sacrifice,
 so others could go free?
 Then as I lay there praying,
 I found comfort in my beleifs.
 Through my trust in God,
 a strange sensation of releif.
 Because I knew all these men served with honor,
 integrity and pride.
 And God now has some of Earth's Angels,
 standing by his side.

                                              Kaleb Menn

Kaleb Menn

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