漫长归途

故事根据MarthaRaddatz的《纽约时报》畅销书改编。　　2004年4月4日，入侵伊拉克的美军第一骑兵师在巴格达萨德尔城遭遇伏击，伤亡惨重，心有余悸的美军从此将这一天定为一年一度的「黑色星期日」。此事件发生在美国前总统乔治-W-布什宣布伊拉克战争「任务结束」11个月后，美国军方对伊拉克的态度从此大变，由所谓的「维持和平」转向大肆屠杀，美军为此起了个好听的名字，叫做「与叛乱分子英勇作战」

by Alan Seegar

I have a rendezvous with Death

At some disputed barricade,

When Spring comes back with rustling shade

And apple-blossoms fill the air-

I have a rendezvous with Death

When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

It may be he shall take my hand

And lead me into his dark land

And close my eyes and quench my breath-

It may be I shall pass him still.

I have a rendezvous with Death

On some scarred slope of battered hill,

When Spring comes round again this year

And the first meadow-flowers appear.

God knows 'twere better to be deep

Pillowed in silk and scented down,

Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,

Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,

Where hushed awakenings are dear...

But I've a rendezvous with Death

At midnight in some flaming town,

When Spring trips north again this year,

And I to my pledged word am true,

I shall not fail that rendezvous.