The medals on our chests
\nAre port-a-caths for meds
\nHelmets won’t stay on
\nCause no hair is on our heads.<\/p>\n
Our weapons of destruction
\nWe take every day
\nWe fight the battle within us
\nWhile we struggle on to play.<\/p>\n
We fight with honor and courage
\nNo Marine could do as well
\nWe are only little children
\nLiving in this hell.<\/p>\n
So bring on the medals
\nThe Purple Hearts of Wars
\nThe Gold Cross, The Silver Star
\nTo place upon our scars.<\/p>\n
For We are the Children of Cancer
\nNo one has fought so hard
\nBut every day we struggle on
\nOur LIFE is our reward.<\/p>\n
by Cheryl Putnam
\nmom to a leukemia survivor, Robby Putnam, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia 1\/93, 1\/95, 7\/95 and Bone Marrow Transport 1\/96, now age 22.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The medals on our chests Are port-a-caths for meds Helmets won’t stay on Cause no hair is on our heads. Our weapons of destruction We take every day We fight the battle within us While we struggle on to play. We fight with honor and courage No Marine could do as well We are only … Continue reading “The Littlest Soldiers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.liftingupserenity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}