A Tribute To Veterans In Vietnam, Korea and World Wars Past Our Men Fought Bravely so Freedom Would Last Conditions Were Not Always Best They Could Be Fighting a Foe You Could Not Always See: From Mountain Highs to Valley Lows From Jungle Drops to Desert Patrols 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: They Would Come Home, They Would Resume And Carry On With The Rest of Their Lives The P.O.W.¹S 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: They Would Come Home, They Would Resume And Carry On the Rest Of Their Lives 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: They Mended Bones And Bodies Too, They Soothed the Spirits of Dying Souls And for Those M.I.A¹S, Who Were Left Behind We Echo This Message Across the Seas We Will search For as Long As It Takes You¹re Not Forgotten And Will Always Be: In Our Hearts, In Our Prayers, In Our Minds For All Time 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: In Our Hearts, In Our Prayers In Our Minds For All Time INTERLUDE: GOLD STAR MOTHERS GRIEVE: ENDLESSLY, ENDLESSLY, ENDLESSLY....... These Immortalized Soldiers Whose Bravery Abounds They¹re Our Husbands, Fathers, and Sons They Enlisted For the Duty at Hand To Serve the Cause of Country and Land: They Had Honor, They Had Valor, They Found Glory That Change Them Forever 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: In the Sun, In the Rain In the Winds Across This Land 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: In the Sun, In the Rain, In the Winds Across This Land REPEAT: In the Sun, In the Rain, In the Winds For All Time  © 2003 Jerry Calow

We Stood For Freedom  We stood for freedom just like you And loved the flag you cherish too  Our uniforms felt great to wear You know the feel, and how you care  In step we marched, the cadence way The same is true with you today  Oh how we tried to do our best As you do now, from test to test  How young we were and proud to be Defenders of true liberty  So many thoughts bind soldiers well The facts may change, not how we jell  Each soldier past, and you now here Do share what will not disappear  One thought now comes, straight from my heart For soldiers home, who’ve done their part  I’m honored to have served with you May Godly peace, help get you through  And now I’ll end with a request Do ponder this, while home at rest  America, respect our day Each veteran, helped freedom stay  ©2002 Roger J. Robicheau

I Stand Before You  I stand before you all today But not one eye can see my way  My time arrived, to leave this earth A fact so planned, to every birth  It happened where I had to go My torch for life was so aglow  I transferred while in uniform Protecting freedom, through a storm  Should I resent I died for you Not on my life, red white and blue  Please help my family through each day Tell all my friends, try not to stray  And of the country I did love Do think of me, through God above  Your memories, brought forth this day Send love to us, who could not stay  ©2001 Roger J. Robicheau