IT WAS 33 YEARS AGO AND A HALF WORLD AWAY
THAT WE WERE TOGETHER IN A MUCH DIFFERENT WAY
WE HAD SEEN THE HORROR AND UGLINESS OF WAR
UP CLOSE AND IN PERSON ON ITS OWN FRONT DOOR
MOST OF US HAD COME OUT OF THE BUSH
AND FELT A LITTLE BIT SAFER UNDER THE TRUST
OF OUR DOCTORS AND CHIEFS BACK IN THE REAR
WHERE YOU WOULD THINK THERE WAS NOTHING TO FEAR
SUCH WAS NOT THE CASE AS WE SOON FOUND OUT
WITH INCOMING MORTARS AND ROCKETS ABOUT
WE DID OUR JOBS SUCH AS SICK CALLS AND MEDCAPS
NEVER THINKING IF ANYONE EVER REALLY GAVE A CRAP
WHEN OUR DAILY TASKS WERE FULLY COMPLETED
WE'D THOUGHT OUR ENERGY WAS ALSO DEPLETED
THIS WAS NOT THE CASE BECAUSE WE USUALLY HAD FUN
BY GETTING TOGETHER IN THE AFTERNOON SUN
FOR WE USUALLY WENT TO PLAY HORSESHOES OR VOLLEYBALL
IT WAS THERE THAT WE COULD SHOW ONE AND ALL
THAT CORPSMEN WERE FRIENDS AND BROTHERS
WHO COULD ALWAYS COUNT ON EACH OTHER
TO BE THERE LIKE WE WERE FOR OUR FELLOW MARINES
UNDER ANY CONDITIONS NO MATTER HOW EXTREME
AND YES THIRTY THREE YEARS HAVE PASSED
BUT OUR BOND FOREVER LASTS
AS IT WILL FOR ANOTHER THIRTY THREE
FOR AS LONG AS OUR COUNTRY REMAINS FREE
BY: DOC "ROCKY" MILLER 3/29/02
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