QUALIA LXXIV: Honoring those Who Sacrifice and Dedicate Themselves to Humanity and our World, on Veterans Day 2005!

THE UNIVERSAL SOLDIER

He's five foot two and he's six feet four,
He fights with missiles and with spears,
He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen,
He's been a soldier for a thousand years.

He's a Catholic, a Hindu,
An atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist,
And a Jew,
And he knows he shouldn't kill
And he knows he always will,
Kill you for me, my friend,
And me for you.

And he's fighting for Canada,
He's fighting for France,
He's fighting for the U.S.A.,
And he's fighting for the Russians,
And he's fighting for Japan,
And he thinks we'll put an end to war that way.

And he's fighting for democracy,
And he's fighting for the Reds,
He says it's for the peace of all,
He's the one who must decide
Who's to live and who's to die,
And he never sees the writing on the wall.

But without him how could Hitler
Have condemned him at Dachau,
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
He's the one who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can't go on.

He's the UNIVERSAL SOLDIER
And he really is to blame,
His orders come from far away no more,
They come from him and you and me,
And bothers, can't you see
This is not the way we put an end to war.