Soldiers of the Wall
Oh we’re soldiers of the wall,
We’ve fought and died for one and all.
We’re just resting here you see
To see if our blood shed kept you free
A patriot’s dream for liberty.
When we heard that clarion cry,
A call to arms set us on this course.
And we’d do’er again without remorse.
For we’d rather be men than shirk
When our country needs us to do dirty work
For we know that freedom is not free
And our children must grow tall in liberty
From our wall,
See huddling masses yearning to be free,
From our wall.
We see a nation built on honesty,
Fought for with our blood of integrity.
We see great courage maintained in modesty
From our place here on the wall
Standing so proud and so tall.
To trample tyranny beloved freedom galled.
We bore in might
Righteous spirit of right.
We fought evil in Vietnam devastating.
Armed with fire and lightning,
Forces of communism dissipating,
Vietcong bastions wherein wrath lay stored
Fell to America's terrible swift sword.
Of justice would at longlast prevail
Common freedoms to Vietnamese avail.
But it was not to be...
Now as soldiers of the wall
Forever stand we,
Symbols of courageous struggle for liberty,
Of the best of us valiantly fallen
Blest youth forever stolen.
For we gave our lives in suffering pain.
Where heroes proved
More than life, their country loved.
Endowed with great courage and strength,
We went to any length,
Fighting in Nam’s gore and mud
To inspire young men’s red blood
To crown our nation with noble brotherhood.
To stand in might, for right's defense.
We watched our buddies die,
Followed them in death by and by
Standing brave, and standing tall.
Finding gloried honor on this granite wall.
We’ve fought and died for one and all.
We’re just resting here you see
To see if our blood shed kept you free
A patriot’s dream for liberty.
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To Vietnam did run.
We did not look behind
As valorous courage we seemed to find.
So do not shed for us faint tears
See our dream for country,
See beyond the years
We knew we were doing our duties well.
For we answered our country’s call,
'Cause someone had to do it.
We soldiers fighting in Nam's misty pall,
Gave a gift to our beloved...our all.
We’ve fought and died for one and all.
We’re just resting here you see
To see if our blood shed kept you free
A patriot’s dream for liberty.
I hope people never forget us here,
In this black marbled granite bier.
For the sign of a man,
Is the amount of respect he gives
For fathers and brothers who gave all for them
Who now on that lonely wall lives.
Do you honor our proud victory
Fought and won for you and me...
Though sad we be for our sainted mothers,
Do not cry for me my brothers
But give to my death meaning
beyond my moldering grave greening.
For men guiding,
Standing safeguard protecting
Our great nation,
Brave men standing between loved ones
And war’s unholy devastation.
Those who strains of freedom reflect
From that hallowed wall,
Revered now by us all.
Remember those living in darkning shadow
Who with courage and honor jousted
With freedom’s malignant foe.
We’ve fought and died for one and all.
We’re just resting here you see
To see if our blood shed kept you free
A patriot’s dream for liberty.
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