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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
hear the deadless sounds of bombs as they drop down from the sky
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My God! I heard that mother say, "But this be none our fault, yet here lay dying is my infant babe who had not yet learned to walk,
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and he brought no arms against any nations, he knew nothing of a command a baby bottle was all he held in his tiny hands",
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and then my tears came streaming down but not because of faith but because those words that mother spoke I knew so well was right,
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for every child from his mother's womb be that mother's greatest delight and man has no right to take her blessings
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and teach it to kill or fight.
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Well slowly I moved towards that heartbroken mother but her words pierced me through and through,
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"Away with you young soldier" she said, "for you are a killer too"
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and ohhhhh that hurt me so you will never know because, because at one time I was so proud I'd tell ya
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I sported my medals for all to see, it was a hero to the crowds
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but you know what really made it hurt so bad, well it was all my glory and my great pride,
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I tell ya it left my heart a burning hell why I'd won them from babes that died.
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Well then I picked that dead baby up, you know it I held it in my arms, again to hear that mother state,
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"yes soldier, you helped to kill my son".
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One night an old building that was once a church had been all but blown down,
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well I wandered there to say a prayer and what was left of a cross I found and on that broken bit of cross was a part of the Christ's child arm
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and the side of his holy body in which the spear was thrown--