I was in country 68-69 and reading the taps, moved me to finish a poem I started then, it reflects the time period, and to help the brothers sisters and children of the serviceman, who were lost, to understand the time base period some what. I would be Honored if you post this poem

Written For: For the Children of that time

I can't come home

We were the men who stood alone.
And forgotten by a country, that was our home.
So much has changed while we were here in this awful place.
I can't come home to face the disgrace.

Our country's sons who paid the price,
One year or a life we will have to give.
Our hearts are empty of all but blood,
I can't come home, with just sweat and mud.

We were the men who answered the call.
For our country's, duty, family and all.
We were the men who stood alone,
and forgotten by a country, that was our home

So I will just stay here, with my fellow man,
a soldier, a friend, and to its end.
We have always been by each other side,
with a pride that we hide.

We were the men who stood alone
Forgot by a country, that was our home.

God please, hear our simple prayer, forgive us,
and take us, to your home.
For we were the men who stood alone.
Forgot by a country, that can't welcome us home.

M.L.Carte 68-69