When I am 70 sign me up for the front lines.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t send the 19 year old getting started. No parent should have to lose their baby over the frivolities of old men.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t send the 34 year old raising a family. Let them savor the moments of tiny fingers and first steps, of tee ball and dance recitals, of first loves and heartbreaks.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t send the 45 year old veteran retiring after two decades served. They have earned the right to sit this, and all the rest of them out. <\/p>\n
Don\u2019t send the 53 year old first time grandparent. Let them rediscover what they thought they said goodbye to years ago. <\/p>\n
Don\u2019t send the 63 year old struggling to survive on social security. Give them a bit more and remember to visit more often. <\/p>\n
Send me. <\/p>\n
When I am 70.<\/p>\n
Sign me up for the front lines. <\/p>\n
Let the end of my life be a glorious battle to protect those just beginning. <\/p>\n
If old men must make war, let old men fight those wars. <\/p>\n
If disease must take a life, let be mine.<\/p>\n
Leave the babies alone. <\/p>\n
Leave the passionate lovers sowing their seeds.<\/p>\n
Leave the middle aged building their homes, their lives.<\/p>\n
Leave everyone still figuring out that life ends before it really begins. <\/p>\n
When I am 70<\/p>\n
And I have loved passionately, lost painfully, learned knowingly;<\/p>\n
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