11 And all in all, they were pretty good at finding compromises that prevented the apotato from getting hot enough to explode,
12 Time after time after time,
13 bUntil the day things didn't work out,
14 And they needed you.
CHAPTER 221 They needed you to do the dirty work,
2 And they counted on cyou to be there for them, ready and waiting when some maniac in a foreign country went ape and killed some Americans.
3 They needed you to go take care of it,
4 Because they knew that you had the guts,
5 And that you wouldn't quit,
6 dEver,
7 eNot from the first moment that one of you lost a buddy, and had to wipe his brains off your face.
8 From that moment on, you were the strong right arm of America,
9 fAnd they drafted you to save the union from the confederacy,
10 gAnd they drafted you to teach the Kaiser a lesson,
11 hAnd they drafted you to jam Hitler's blitzkrieg down his throat and Hirohito's divine wind up his backside,
12 And iyou did it,
13 The way you always do it,
14 jAs fast and deadly as possible,
15 So that you could come right back to Kensington and get kdrunk.
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16 lAnd then they drafted you again to go do it for the whole world in Korea,
17 But they forgot why they needed you,
18 mAnd they wanted you to fight their way,
19 nAnd do it slow and easy and controlled,
20 oWhich was a joke,
21 pAnd they just barely got away with it,
22 Or that's what they thought, anyway, because they never asked you for your opinion about it,
23 And so they tried it again,
24 qIn a place called Vietnam,
25 rAnd this time they just hung you out to dry,
26 And let you die in the jungle without a baseball bat to even the score.
CHAPTER 231 sAnd that's when everybody in the whole world turned on you,
2 Because they had forgotten who you were,
3 And why they had ever needed you,
4 Because now they knew that America couldn't fight a war without using nuclear weapons,
5 tWhich meant that you and your baseball bat had gotten to be more of an embarrassment than a help,
6 And so when they looked at you they didn't see your guts anymore,
7 uOr the force of your blind raging loyalty to each other in the face of the enemy,
8 vOr all the dirty work you had ever done to build their nice things for them when you weren't in jail.
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