So You Want To Be A Soldier

So you want to be a soldier
And learn those fighting moves
Be a member of a team 
In the soldier's school


So you want to be a soldier
And go far from your home,
And learn there how to be a man
As you fight and roam 


So you want to be a soldier 
And hold your buddy's hand,
As they breathe their final,
There on some mortal sand.


So you want to be a soldier 
And call the road your bed,
And never know just when or how 
You'll lay down you tired head.


So you want to be a soldier
Be buries in some plot-
Maybe far from your hometown,
After you have fought.


So you want to be a soldier
Well there's no finer choice,
Than giving so selfishly
To freedoms song, your voice.


You want to be a soldier
And you could do much worse,
And choose the cowards way to go
And walk, behind the hearse.


But your name they'll remember,
As they speak of you with awe;
And wonder at your bravery,
And wonder what you saw.


Many men will shake your hand
And thank you for their freedom,
They'll say it is a gift from god
That you are still breathing.


You'll live more than more thanj other men
And suffer much more too,
But in the end , you'll count it as 
The best thing you could do.


And the biggest thank you,
That you will ever receive, 
Is in the eyes of loved ones
When you're back home again.


So if you know an older soldier,
Please shake his hand today 
And tell him that you're grateful 
He chose the soldier's way 


-Patti Masterman

Newton, Isaac - One of the greatest scientists of all time

Isaac Newton(1642-1727)

Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait of Isaac Newton(age 46)

               Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, in the small English town of Woolsthorpe. His father, a farmer died shortly before Isaac was born. When the boy was 3 years old, his mother remarried and moved to another town. Isaac stayed on at the farm with his grandmother. He was sent to the King's School in the nearby town of Grantham at the age of 12.

                    During his student days, Isaac was a poor student at first. He cared little for schoolwork, preferring to paint, write in notebooks, make kites or invent toys. He made no friends. Silent and dreamy, he was at the bottom of his class. Oddly, It was a savage kick by a bully that caused Newton's great mind to awaken. the dreamy boy flew into rage and beat the other boy thoroughly. Isaac was determined to beat the bully in schoolwork as well. Soon Isaac was at the head of his class.

            When an idea got into Newton's head he could think of nothing else. Once, during a storm, his mother sent him to shut the barn doors to keep them from being torn off. Half an hour later she went to see what was keeping the boy so long. He had forgotten all about the barn doors. They were ripped of their hinges, and Newton was jumping again and again from an open window to the ground. Each time, he marked the spot here he landed. Newton was trying to measure the force of the wind. When the gusts were strong, his jumps werelonger when the wind was weaker.

          When he was 18 years old, Newton went to Trinity College in Cambridge University. He quickly proved to his teachers that he was no ordinary student. He read all the books he could get especially those on mathematics and physics. These interested him the most

              In 1665, when Newton when Newton was only 22 years old, he worked out a mathemathics formula that has been used ever since. Today it is called the binomial theorem.

                 One day in 1665 Newton was sitting in a garden, thing about the moon. While he was wondering about the force that kept the moon moving around the Earth, he saw an apple fall from a tree. This set him thinking about falling objects. Why did they fall down and not up? The same force that made the apple fall downward must also be attracting the moon and helping to keep it in orbit.

                While at Woolsthorpe, Newton began experimenting with light. He succeeded in showing that a beam of light is made up of bands of colours from red to violet. He called these bands the spectrum.

                 Newton's book "The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy appeared in 1687. It was written in Latin, the language in which most scientific books were written at that time. Many scientists think it is the most important scientific book ever written.

                   Isaac Newton died in1727. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, among the great men of England.. His statue stands today in the hall of Trinity College, Cambridge University. 

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