Ski died young, `neath a melting sun, In a field of flame far astray. Jets roared by, in the smoke filled sky, As I watched Ski\u2019s life ebb away. His wound wasn\u2019t much, and he was warm to the touch, So I thought he would be okay. But it wasn\u2019t to be, as they took Ski from me, In the fiery green jungle that day. Now many years have gone by, and I still wonder why, My friend had to leave me that way. And my eyes start to blink, when I look back and think, What my dying young friend had to say, Hold on to me man, I know that you can. Listen to me while I pray. You ain\u2019t gonna die, in anguish I cried As I pulled him up safe from the fray. Our eyes did then meet, and his face was so sweet, I bawled like a babe in dismay. Oh, don\u2019t take my friend, I said to the wind. Let me go if someone must pay. But I could not save Ski; it was not him or me. The choice of the God\u2019s had been made. Now I write this sad scroll, with a hole in my soul. Knowing a better man than I ever portrayed. Died a long time ago. A long way from home, And gave us all freedom. Prepaid.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ski died young, `neath a melting sun, In a field of flame far astray. Jets roared by, in the smoke filled sky, As I watched Ski\u2019s life ebb away. His wound wasn\u2019t much, and he was warm to the touch, So I thought he would be okay. But it wasn\u2019t to be, as they took […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"\u2018The Price\u2019 \u2014 an ode to a brave, fallen veteran","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11593,11552,11561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-peninsula-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}