You can see him raising his right hand to solute <br />The American flag waving in the background <br />He has just been given orders to leave everyone he has ever loved <br />To fight for peoples freedoms he has never met <br />The look on his face shows determination <br />He knows he might not ever see his family again <br />He knows he might never breath American air again <br />He knows he is doing this for his country <br />The tears fall from his face as he boards a plane <br />Volunteering to fly thousands of miles away from his small home in Ohio <br />Knowing instead of waking up to his wife next to him <br />He will wake up to orders and gunfire <br />Instead of being on call forty hours of the week <br />He will have his radio by his side every second of every day <br />Waiting to fight for what he believes in <br />He has given true sacrifice so others may live they life they choose <br />He has been fighting for 146 days now <br />Not once complaining about his job <br />Because he knows this job <br />Is the only way to show his dad how much he loved him <br />He knows he will be watching from above with all his battle scares healed <br />And a smile on his face <br />Because his son followed in his footsteps <br />To fight for the country that he loves!<br /><br />jason zas<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-fathers-footsteps/
