Got drafted in the Army one morning,
Never thought that it could happen to me.
Human starship got blasted without warning,
And the Spaceforce had need for infantry.
  With black hole jumps they sped us off,
  And for us time did slow.
  Though decades pass behind me,
  Mere months of flight I know.
  Attack, but take one captive
  Of our faceless foe
The docs had helped us pacifists
With posthypnotic hate,
Hit their base and killed them all,
Retook our souls too late.

Three more battles have I seen since that dark morning.
And the centuries--Why keep track after three?
I'm a major though the world that I was fighting to save
Is now long-ago forgotten history.
  My troops were born from bottles,
  Keep queer society.
  We flew six hundred years to win
  A Pyrrhic victory.....
  Twenty-two came back alive
  To find out we were free...
Ten billion clones now ruled mankind,
With foe could now communicate,
The war had come by accident,
Then grew of its own weight.

/////////much remains.