“Paroled After Battle”

 

“Paroled After Battle”

 

cji

7/4/13

 

No longer to fight until

An exchange to fill;

 

One for one equal rank

Till put in holding tank;

 

Called detention camps

Marked with evil stamps;

 

Poor food and civil rights

Attacked by own at nights;

 

Others wandering home

Created problem of own;

 

Some send West to fight

Many to escape in full flight;

 

Problems and logistics

More than mere statistics;

 

Honor bound all to obey

Laying down arms to stay;

 

A person’s word to honor

Never ever to dishonor;

 

Yet long ago was not now

Virtue, honor to not vow;

 

Throughout all history

Stopped without mystery;

 

The Civil War was the end

To prison camps to send;

 

Many inefficiencies to be

No longer soldier to be free!

 

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