| Oh, what a friend I lost in battle.
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| And not forty-two years ago, but yesterday.
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| Among the mountains and sands, where the heat burns everything around,
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| Scorching my childish memory.
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| - Do you hear, my friend, my friend!
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| We ascended to that unbookish height,
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| under which you lie.
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| Oh, what a friend I lost in battle!
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| The damned dust clogged our eyes.
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| And the armored personnel carrier was on fire. |
| In the sky, like a dragonfly, a helicopter.
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| And, like a voice from the past, a cry: "Forward!"
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| Like a nerve, a stretched nerve snapped to the point of pain.
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| And from the slope a bullet went towards him in flight.
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| Sand and stone.
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| The sad light of an alien moon overhead.
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| Look up to the banner!
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| Farewell my brother! |
| From now on you are forever with us!
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| I'm sorry that you died, and I'm just injured.
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| In the mountains of Afghani, in Afghanistan.
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| Oh, what a friend I lost in battle!
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| We have loved to read about the war all our lives.
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| He did not know in any way what would fall to me under fire
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| His body is dragged by a boulder on his back.
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| Far away, thirty meters...
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| But how far was that road between night and day.
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| Sand and stone.
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| The sad light of an alien moon overhead.
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| Look up to the banner!
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| Farewell my brother! |
| From now on you are forever with us!
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| I'm sorry that you died, and I'm just injured.
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| In the mountains of Afghani, in Afghanistan.
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| In Afghanistan.
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| In Afghanistan... |