We Were Soldiers II

A Traitor to America

G-Troop

2/11 ACR

And 25th Inf

Ambush Patrol

1972

~We were Soldiers one and all

fighting for our flag~

~We saw our brothers fall by fall

go home in Body bags~

~We could hear their cries of death

fighting to the end~

~Gasping to breathe their last breath

many were my friends~

~Throughout the day into the night

unto the next of day~

~Charlie hit us hard in Fire fights

but we made him pay~

~Ten of us one hundred of them

a terrible cost of life~

~Battles lasting to never end

striking from their hives~

~Compounded by lasting rains

saturating all around~

~Causing some to go insane

but still we held our ground~

~Back home they protested us

siding with the Cong~

~Burning our flag with Discuss

saying we were wrong~

~Jane Fonda played a Traitors game

posing on their guns~

~An enemy to us America’s shame

collaborating scum~

~She supported the enemy’s every lie

with her evil slurs~

~While our soldiers fought for their lives

in defense of hers~

~Our brothers sitting in rat filled cells

one hundred yards away~

~Hotel Hanoi their private Hell

suffering every day~

~Fifty eight thousand two hundred plus

gave their precious lives~

~Believing in what we thought was just

protecting freedoms right~

~No heroes welcome or job well done

when we came home~

~We were no better than horses dun

we would stand alone~

~They spit on us and called us names

Baby killers from Hell~

~Only adding to memories of pain

many we could not tell~

~For some of us the war goes on

every night we dream~

~We find ourselves back in Nam

waking in a scream~

~Relationships are not as they fail

scaring those away~

~Some find themselves locked in jails

minds gone astray~

~Caused by being hooked on dope

coping with the pain~

~Giving up loosing all their hope

and going insane~

~In the end many take their own lives

after surviving the Nam~

~Leaving behind children and wives

in pain and dwelling on~

~We were Solders one and all

fighting for our flag~

~We saw our bothers fall by fall

go home in Body bags~

~We wait our turn to join with them

to end our ever pain~

~When Azriel takes us at our end

to the Soldier’s hall of fame~

Duke Sherman

Sgt,USA 

G-Troop, 2/11 ACR

Vietnam 1971-1972

Black Horse Soldier