‘A Messy Situation’

Having ice cream seems like heaven and having eight hours to sleep is better than seven.
So as I pick up my weapon, I tread across the path knowing it could be my day.
I hope not, but I accept it when I die.

What keeps me going is to live another day, to see my family, to see the soil.
What we go through you'll never see on the news.  If you want to understand, look at my face, listen to my voice, it's everything about me, my wounds and scars, and my tears.  Once you look into my eyes, you'll understand what I mean when I say this body

Is for you.
This sacrifice is for all of you so you can do what you want!
And not have to fear from all sorts of evil from domestic and foreign countries.  Here I stand to protect what I believe.  I hope this good enough for all of you, and if it's not, take another look, for I bleed for you.  I do my best to do what's right and do what's most important, not for me but for this country.

I am infantry!!

Samson, 24, of Hesperia, Mich., died July 24, 2006, in Taqaddum.

Army Spc. Tristan Smith
Jan. 6, 2006