# Love Of Country

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-of-country/274354>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 12, 2004, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-of-country/274354 "2004-11-12T06:37:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![\_m\_c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/f475e1/32.png) [@\_m\_c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_m_c)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-of-country/274354/1 "2004-11-12T06:37:53Z")

</div>

I am dead for love of country  
A keeper of the flame  
Stretch out to all the others  
That fell in freedoms name

Said Hello to Patrick Henry  
Shook hands with Dr. King  
Broke bread with all my brothers  
Who paid for freedoms ring

All lives through the ages  
The sum of human kind  
Fill tomes of manys pages  
But seldom you will find

Men who fought for freedom  
On someone elses shore  
End the Tyrant’s season  
Without the taste of war

In oath we lose our brothers  
And many more will die  
For our love of counrty  
Is our freedoms battle cry

~m@c~

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![\_m\_c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/f475e1/32.png) [@\_m\_c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_m_c)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-of-country/274354/2 "2004-11-12T06:43:01Z")

</div>

Sorry it should read “without a taste for war”

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-of-country/274354/3 "2004-11-12T08:55:20Z")

</div>

Buddy, can you spare a possessive apostrophe?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![\_m\_c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/f475e1/32.png) [@\_m\_c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_m_c)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-of-country/274354/4 "2004-11-12T15:35:19Z")

</div>

Sure my friend since I’ve seemed to have horded a few :smack: