A million fathers being shipped to war
Men and women fighting for their lives
Every tear being cried by their families
Real pain and sadness spreading through the country
Imagining going home to his family
Carrying a friend on their back
A wounded boy asks for his mother
Not a thing to do except wait for the end


Sitting by a friend with hardly any food
Only the knowledge of their family being safe
Losing himself in the darkness surrounding
Dying men lay around him
In the grass he lays his weapon
Every thought is for their home
Riding in a plane back to his family


That’s what a true American Soldier is to me.