Remember Them

I've always wondered;

What does one think

When they die in battle

Do they think of the pain?

Family? Friends? A lover?

Do they think about what will happen next?

Heaven? Hell? Rotting in the ground?

What their enemy could do to them?

What their allies could?

I wish to believe all they think, feel and see is peace

The gratifying feeling of not having to go on anymore.....

Not having to fight, not having to kill....

I wish to believe that their deaths are fast, easy, painless.

That they suffer no longer.

Not for me.

The thought of anyone dying for me is painful and useless.

There is no point.

Though they do, did anyway.

That's why these people are my heroes....

They risk their lives for other human beings that they do not even know...

As long as we remember this fact,

Remember them....

They shall not have died in vain.

Remember them....