{"id":23997,"date":"2012-12-24T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=23997"},"modified":"2012-12-24T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T12:00:33","slug":"onward-u-s-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/12\/onward-u-s-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Onward U. S. Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1<br \/>\nOnward, U. S. soldiers, marching off to war,<br \/>\nwith the lure of conquest worth the blood and gore.<br \/>\nObama, our royal Master, rants against the foe;<br \/>\nforward into battle, see our missiles go!<\/p>\n<p><i>Refrain<\/i><br \/>\nOnward, U. S. soldiers, marching off to war,<br \/>\nwe are rich and righteous, and we want some more.<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nSee our mighty army on the side of God;<br \/>\nbrothers, we are treading where the saints have trod.<br \/>\nWe are not divided, all one body we,<br \/>\none in greed and malice, lacking sanity.<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nAfter all the carnage, all the blood and toil,<br \/>\nwe will gain salvation, also lots of oil.<br \/>\nCowards speak against us, whom we can ignore.<br \/>\nWe must slaughter heathens as we have before.<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\nWe deserve to conquer &#8217;cause we are all good.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll make other nations act the way they should.<br \/>\nDo not doubt our wisdom, do not count the cost,<br \/>\ndo not ask how many children&#8217;s lives are lost.<\/p>\n<p>5<br \/>\nShow you&#8217;re patriotic, cheer for Obama&#8217;s team.<br \/>\nWhen the war is over, we will reign supreme.<br \/>\nOil, the precious treasure, leads us on our quest.<br \/>\nGod will bless and honor triumph for the West.<\/p>\n<p>6<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s jump into action, peace is such a bore.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s kill lots of Arabs as in days of yore.<br \/>\nMight is right for our side, that is all we know.<br \/>\nFighting is what&#8217;s needed, diplomacy&#8217;s too slow.<\/p>\n<p>7<br \/>\nCrowns and thrones may perish, kingdoms rise and wane,<br \/>\nbut our nation&#8217;s purpose constant will remain.<br \/>\nGates of hell can never &#8216;gainst our will prevail;<br \/>\nwe have God&#8217;s own promise, so we cannot fail.<\/p>\n<p>8<br \/>\nOnward then, ye soldiers, brave and righteous throng,<br \/>\nblend with ours your voices in this insane song.<br \/>\nShow that you are loyal unto Obama our King,<br \/>\nKill those who oppose him, and his praises sing.<br \/>\n________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Adaptation of <i>Onward Christian Soldiers.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Tom Greening:<\/b> \u201cI engage in five professional activities:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Faculty Member at Saybrook University<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Private Practice of Psychotherapy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Clinical Professor of Psychology, UCLA<\/em><br \/>\n<em>International Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Writing (Poetry).\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomgreening.com\/c_writer.php\" >http:\/\/www.tomgreening.com\/c_writer.php#<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onward then, ye soldiers, brave and righteous throng,<br \/>\nblend with ours your voices in this insane song.<br \/>\nShow that you are loyal unto Obama our King,<br \/>\nKill those who oppose him, and his praises sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}