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An endless stare

One sees in their eyes

Looking in the distance

Moments pass to realize



Still they proceed

Determined in battle

Defending their creed

Despite home prattle



Gazing far ahead

But not focusing on

Optimism decreasing

Half of them gone…



One day patrol

On guard for a fight

Can change a young boy

Into a man over night



“Come on back home!”

That’s all we cry

With casualties in masses

None needed to die



There was no declaration

We just wanted to evade

But now we are fighting

Watching our men fade



Both sides at loss

Many innocent slain

And all in the end

Still noting to gain



Thousands of brave lost

Many families left behind

Children struggling to live

New father figures to find



They burned down the brush

They killed all the crop

Nothing could prevent it

We just wouldn’t stop



Unfamiliar territory

Which left us in loss

Not only in strategy

But young lives across



They used Agent Orange

And greatly napalm

Poisoning themselves

All in Vietnam



But if they made it

Survived the fight

They’d come home to

A nation’s hating despite



The moment they set

Foot onto home ground

They faced grimace and spit

Disgrace they were bound



Children birth defected

From exposed men

Who weren’t told better

Way back when



There was no pride

There was no glory

For these men in Nam

So goes the story



A boy they come in

A man they leave

With so-called honor

Of valor on their sleeve







Inspired by: School subject

Dedicated to: Veterans & Americans

Created on: July 1, 2008 –0638