{"id":57,"date":"2005-11-11T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedom24.org\/rationalpost\/?p=57"},"modified":"2006-06-16T16:03:42","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T23:03:42","slug":"afghan-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freedom24.org\/rationalpost\/afghan-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"afghan fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in afghan fields, the poppies <a href=\"http:\/\/yaleglobal.yale.edu\/display.article?id=5385\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/yaleglobal.yale.edu\/display.article?id=5385\">blow<br \/>\n<\/a>beneath the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,188029,00.html\">mountains<\/a>, row on row<br \/>\nthat mark our <a href=\"http:\/\/icasualties.org\/oef\/Afghanistan.aspx\">peace<\/a>; and in the skies<br \/>\nthe army, bravely singing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/spiesfly\/\">flies<\/a><br \/>\nscarce heard amid their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/commentary\/columns\/2002\/02\/arms_sales.html\">guns<\/a> below<\/p>\n<p>we are the dead, short days <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/war\/sept_11\/afghan_culture_01.shtml\">ago<\/a><br \/>\nwe lived, felt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/webcast\/ga\/59\/statements\/afgeng040921.pdf\">dawn<\/a>, saw sunset glow<br \/>\nloved, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/ngm\/100best\/storyA_story.html\">were loved<\/a>, and now we lie<br \/>\nin afghan fields<\/p>\n<p>take up our quarrel with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marxist.com\/Asia\/tgrant_on_afghan1980.html\">foe<\/a>:<br \/>\nto you, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/whitney09082004.html\">failing hands<\/a> we throw<br \/>\nthe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/webcast\/ga\/58\/statements\/usaeng030923.htm\">torch<\/a>, be yours to hold it high<br \/>\nif ye break faith with us who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cursor.org\/stories\/civilian_deaths.htm\">die<\/a><br \/>\nwe shall not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/s\/p\/rem\/6757.htm\">sleep<\/a>, though poppies grow<br \/>\nin afghan fields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in afghan fields, the poppies blow beneath the mountains, row on row that mark our peace; 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