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| In Vietnam, Korea and World Wars Past |
| Our Men fought Bravely so Freedom Would Last |
| Conditions Where Not Always Best They Could Be |
| Fighting a Foe You Could Not Always See: |
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| From Mountain Highs to Valley Lows |
| From Jungle drops to Desert Patrols |
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| Our Sinewy Sons Were Sent Over Seas |
| Far From Their Families And Far From Their Dreams |
| They Never Wrote Letters Of Hardships Despair |
| Only Of Love, Yearning That One Day Soon: |
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| They Would Come Home, they Would Resume |
| And Carry On With The Rest of Their Lives |
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| The P.O.W.'S Stood Steadfast |
| Against the Indignities And Cruelties Of War |
| They Could Not Have Lasted as Long as They Did |
| If They Had Relinquished Their Hope That Some Day: |
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| They Would Come Home, They Would Resume |
| And Carry On the Rest Of Their Lives |
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| Medics, Nurses, and Chaplains Alike |
| Did What They Needed To Bring Back Life |
| They Served Our Forces From Day Into Night |
| Not Questioning If They Would Survive: |
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| They Mended Bones And Bodies Too, |
| They Soothed the Spirits of Dying Souls |
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| And for Those M.I.A'S, Who Were Left Behind |
| We Echo This Message Across the Seas |
| We Will search For as Long As It Takes |
| You're Not Forgotten An Will Always Be: |
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| In Our Hearts, In Our Prayers, |
| In Our Minds For All Time |
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| A Moment of Silence, a Moment of Summons |
| Is Their Deliverance of Body And Soul |
| To a Sacred Place That We All Know |
| Deep In the Shrines of Our Soul: |
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| In Our Hearts, In Our Prayers |
| In Our Minds For All Time |
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| INTERLUDE: |
| GOLD STAR MOTHERS GRIEVE: ENDLESSLY, |
| ENDLESSLY, ENDLESSLY.......... |
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| These Immortalized Soldiers Whose Bravery Abounds |
| They're Our Husbands, Fathers, and Sons |
| They Enlisted For the Duty at Hand |
| To Serve the Cause of Country and Land: |
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| Thy Had Honor, They Had Valor, |
| They Found Glory That Change Them Forever |
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| Men Standing Tall and Proud They be |
| A Country Behind Them in a Solemn Sea |
| So Let the Flags of Freedom Fly |
| Unfurled in Their Majesty High: |
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| In the Sun, In the Rain |
| In the Winds Across This Land |
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| Years of Tears Has Brought Us Here |
| Gathering Around to Hear This Sound |
| So Let the Flags of Freedom Fly |
| Unfurled in Their Majesty High: |
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| In the Sun, In the Rain, |
| In the Winds Across This Land |
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| REPEAT: |
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| In the Sun, In the Rain, |
| In the Winds For All Time |
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| Jerry Calow (copyright 2003) |
