for Veterans Day
GOING HOME
FINALLY FATHER I AM FREE
GOING HOME TO MY LAND ACROSS THE SEA.
THE YEARS HAVE PASSED SO SLOWLY BY
SINCE THE DAY I CAME HERE TO DIE
IS THERE NO ONE ALIVE THAT RECALLS THAT I
WAS MISSING IN ACTION, AND HAD TO CRY.FIFTY FOUR YEARS AGO I MET MY FATE
NINETEEN YEARS OLD AND FULL OF HATE.
HATE FOR THE ONE'S THAT BROUGHT ME HERE
FAR FROM THE ONE'S I HOLD DEAR
I HAVE FORSAKEN HOPE,NO CAUSE TO CHEER
IN MY UNMARKED GRAVE YEAR AFTER YEAR.SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND BUDDY'S ARE MIA.S
WHETHER ON LAND ARE BENEATH THE WAVES.
NO ONE KNOWS WHERE YOU SLEEP.
OVER YOUR GRAVE NO LOVED ONES WEEP.
ONLY WAVES WASH OVER THE SHIPS SUNK DEEP
AND MEMORIES ARE ALL WE HAVE TO KEEP.LONG YEARS AGO THIS NATIONS YOUTH
JOINED THE CAUSE TO PRESERVE THE TRUTH.
WE HEARD THE CRY'S OF OUR FELLOW MAN
WHEN OUR LEADERS CALLED WE SAID WE CAN
WITH OUR ARMS INTO BATTLE WE RAN
WE GAVE OUR LIVES FOR OUR BELOVED LAND.WE SAW OUR CAUSE AND BEHELD OUR DUTY
GAVE OUR LIVES FOR HONOR NOT FOR BOOTY.
AMERICA IS CALLED THE LAND OF THE BRAVE
ON VETERANS DAY THE FLAG WE DIED TO SAVE
FLY'S AT HALF MAST OVER HONORED GRAVES
OVER UNMARKED GRAVES NOTHING WAVES.BUT I AM FINALLY GOING HOME AT LAST
JUST A MEMORY FROM THE LONG AGO PAST.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS I WAS FINALLY FOUND
I'M GOING HOME FROM THIS CURSED GROUND
AND ON VETERANS DAY WHEN TAPS SOUND
ANOTHER MIA WILL BE HOMEWARD BOUND.~Elmer Ake~