I did not write this. I fixed the grammar and the punctuation, but that doesn't fucking count. I don't know who wrote this or I would give credit where credit is due. And once you read this, you will know that someone deserves a hell of a lot of credit, because this has got to be one of the most beautiful, fan-fucking-tastic things I have ever seen. Ask any Rakkasan you know if this is how he feels and you'll get a "fuck, yeah!" in response. So to all my Rakkasans, far and wide, this is for you!
"I will gladly give my life.
I believe in the people of my country and keeping war from their backyards. I believe that children should grow in a land of peace and prosperity.
I know that the tree of freedom must be watered with the blood of patriots. That men who hear the call to arms are the ones we must support with our treasure.
I know that I will never make a mark in the arts or the sciences. I know that the only thing I have to make a better future for my brothers and my countrymen is my blood and the ability to shoot my enemy before they shoot me.
I am willing to lay down my life for you, so that you may bitch about the life you lead and the life of your children.
I know I will be forgotten by the annals of time.
I know that I will not be known as a great man, a good man or most likely even as a man at all.
But I watch the walls. I stand guard for one reason and one reason only:
One day you will make something of this.
One day you will create something better than I could.
One day our progenitors will live in freedom. For that I spend my life. For that future I die today in your wars. For that future I will endure pain and the depravity of our enemies.
For that future I give my all.
On that day when they count the cost, I don't care who is around to call my name. The sheer fact that they are there is my victory.
I am your infantry man. I am the man making the mission work. I am the man who lies in the grave of the unmarked soldier. I am the man who weeps with happiness each time you raise your children to the sky.
I may not be much. I may die with no one to remember my name. I may pass down in history as a number or a single word. Let that number be 187. Let that word be Rakkasan."
RAKKASAN!! Love you guys!
