Angela With Pride In Her Eyes - Der Bundeswehr Poem by Chris Lane

Her eyes could not hide
As she beamed with pride
For her Men and Women in uniform.

Sixty years laid low in military limbo
Der Bundeswehr did nothing but train,
This being the result of foreign occupation:
Yet all was restored – Europe was under control.

When the phone rang
It was Uncle Sam
Speaking in a NATO accent
Said Sam: Der Bundeswehr, how about a
Afghanistan peace keeping mission?

Der Bundeswehr at night
The timing just right
An Airbus delivered them in:

Then at breakneck speed
their manuals - no need
as tents erected right up.

In the quiet heat of night
Leopards stood silently
Greased, camouflaged precisely.

© Calac

*Leopard. A Battle Tank manufactured in Germany