Will I ever know my friend

Will I ever know my friend
The memories to a bitter end
While I was puttin' school clothes on
You were fighting in Vietnam

How could I ever begin to see?
What possible reason it all came to be
The dreams that keep you awake in the night
That which has brought you through a perilous fight

The friends that afforded their lives by your side
The reason you stay bottled up
And seem to want to hide

No one could ever go
The places that you've been
Not unless you took em'
And why go back again?

Unless it's to retrieve the lost
Who suffered at such grievous cost
The ones who sent them
Never to repay
The ones who called them,left them betrayed
Underneath stacks and files of red tape
Leaving all to wonder there must be some mistake

No, I will never know of yours
The things you suffered
Or what you endured

I can only hope and pray

They'll bring the rest of you home someday.

Gretchen570

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