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I won't do it.
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This is an impressive crowd,
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the haves and the have-mores.
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Some people call you the elite, I call you my base.
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While Bush was busy taking care of his base
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and professing his love for our troops,
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he proposed cutting combat soldiers pay by 33%
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and assistance to their families by 60%.
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He opposed giving veterans a billion dollars more
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in health care benefits,
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and he supported closing veteran hospitals.
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He tried to double the prescription drug costs
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for veterans and opposed full benefits
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for part-time reservists.
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And when Staff Seargeant Brett Petriken
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from Flint was killed in Iraq on May 26th,
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the army sent his last paycheck to his family,
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but they docked him for the last five days of the month
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he didn't work, because he was dead.
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They say they're not going to leave any veterans behind,
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but they're leaving all kinds of veterans behind.
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To say that we're forgotten--
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I know we're not forgotten.
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But missed?
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Yes.
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Yes, you know there has been a lot of soldier
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that have been missed, you know,
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they've been skipped over.
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I think they should get the proper coverage
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that they deserve.
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They have the death toll but they're not showing
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the amount of people that have been injured
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and been amputated because of the injuries.
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Like I still feel like I have hands.
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The pain is like--
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my hands are being crushed in a vice.
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But they do a lot to help it
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and they take a lot of the edge off of it.
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And it just makes it a lot more tolerable.
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I was injured in late April while on patrol in Baghdad.
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Um, could of guys come out and ambushed us.
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I got nerve damage and stuff like that.
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I've got a lot of pain.