Ft. Carson Colorado

“Last year, after nine soldiers in one brigade deployed twice to Iraq had been accused of 10 murders and attempted murders at home, Graham appointed a task force to examine their military records and ascertain any trends. Then-U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, now secretary of the interior, called on Geren to broaden the inquiry into a nationwide review of violence among returning soldiers.” —The Denver Post on 5/6/2009  read article “Preventable suicides. Avoidable drug overdoses. Murders that never should have happened.” — Huffington Post on 2/9/2009  read article

Listen To: Ft. Carson Colorado

Ft. Carson Colorado
The proud home of our 4th Infantry
The men that pulled Sadaam
out from his hole
Ft. Carson Colorado
Those brave souls of the 31st Dixie
Named after Kit, its the Army’s heart and soul

Ft. Carson’s Deadly Duty
Was the headline on the Sunday News
Now Ft. Carson’s pride is burdened by
Its finest Iron horses running wild

And the army said “some problems slipped right through the cracks’
I wonder what they meant by that
Did they mean the 9 soldiers
turned by war from men to fiends
Did they mean the 6 now dead and gone
Shot or stabbed and left to bleed alone

Ft. Carson’s Deadly Duty
Was the headline on the Sunday News
Now Ft. Carson’s pride is burdened by
Its finest Iron horses running wild

Its constant fear, adrenaline
Its what they are trained to do
Redeployed and torn up limb from limb
And then told to come on home and settle in
Ft. Carson sends ‘em over there
Prepared for every kind of terror
But Ft. Carson doesn’t comfort them back home

Copyright 2009 all rights reserved Camille Bright-Smith