I Pray You Hear

~My Lord My God I Pray you hear
keep us from our every fear~
~Take away this evil curse
polluting our world with Satan's verse~
~Give us strength to end the war
bring peace to those who live in Horror~
~Bring our Soldiers home to stay
and grant their each and every Pray~
~Bring our Leaders to understand
"We The People" are in Command~
~Stop the petty in what they play
for they have surely gone astray~
~So many died for this our Land
for our Flag for "Which It Stands"~
~Bless us Lord in every way
God Bless This Land The USA~
~Amen~

“Another Day Be Gone”

~Another Day so be it gone

the Angels Guard so sing their Song~

~Our Hearts within so do We Yearn

out Tears of many so do We Churn~

~We Cry for them their Mortal Souls

their Pain We Feel from Young to Old~

~Upon the Fields of Fiendish Horrors

those of Evil so keep their Score~

~Preyed upon by Satin’ s Seed

the Killing fields so do they Breed~

~By Ten’s of Hundreds Innocent Souls

felled by them of Satin’s Fold ~

~’O send to them ‘O End this Wrong

the Angels Guard so sing their Song~

~But he of them The Land of Good

hears not but that his Shadows Hood~

~I do not send So does he Say

whiile Souls of Many Lie in Prey~

~Innocents Cry the Love of God

their Head be gone a Single Nod~

~Girls of young In slaved as Brides

still of Child but must Abide~

~Men be Killed their Wives be Sold

to Quell the Lust of Satin’s Hold~

~Does not the World they Hear their Cries

nor see the Tears within their Eyes~

~Be Genocide by Satin’s Hand

disguised by that of Mortal Man~

~The Land be Painted The Blood of Many

soon of Innocence be gone of Any~

~One Day this World be come to End

the Angels Seven God will Send~

~Another Day so be it gone

the Angels Guard so sing their Song~

Duke Sherman

Do You Feel The Soldier's Plight

~When you lay to sleep a night

do you feel the Soldier’s plight~

~Do you pray to keep him safe

around the world in every place~

~Duty Country Honors Forged

defending all he fights the War~

~Lays down his life and proud to do

for Home and Flag and yes for you~

~Hear my words and hear them well

without the Soldier we’re Doomed to Hell~

Duke Sherman

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

Once A Soldier Always A Soldier Will Die A Soldier

 Dedicated to my Brothers at Arms

~I am a Veteran of the Vietnam war

Soldier born and bred~

~Been through battles great of horror

many friends lie dead~

~Charlie a Ghost afraid of nothing not

attacking day and night~

~From the depths of Hell the Demons fought

frighting Firefights~

~Two on two off and on again

guarding our precious ground~

~A thousand men did Charlie send

never made a sound~

~Behind and up within the trees

tunnels underground~

~Charlie came like Killer bees

swarming all around~

~One hundred times the count of ten

we fell them to the ground~

~At fighting’s end we searched for them

not a body found~

~Like that of Ghosts they disappeared

back to the depths of Hell~

~Leaving our soldiers to ponder fear

under the Demon spell~

~We searched for Charlie day and night

throughout the Hellish rain~

~Commenced another Firefight

felling many again~

~This was our tour of Hell on Earth

still haunting us today~

~The Vietnam veteran we who served

God Bless The USA~

Duke Sherman, Sgt

G-Troop, 2/11 ACR

Black Horse Soldier

Vietnam Veteran

1971 - 1972

We Were Soldiers

Let Us Not Forget

~Now I lay me down to sleep

as I do each night~

~I pray the Lord my soul to keep

unto the coming light~

~If I should die before I wake

within my nightmarish~

I pray the Lord my soul to take

unto his Heaviness~

~Sometimes I feel my life in ruins

my thoughts play hide in seek~

~Headed for the land of doom

all in turning bleak~

~My mood of swing be flying high

upon the tightest rope~

~So many young so many died

so many years ago~

~But for me ‘twas just last night

like every night before~

~An overwhelming Firefight

of blood in wrenching horror~ 

~I dream of death in never end

walking every turn~

~Remembering those of all my friends

whom never did return~

~Of those I killed in self defense

they had families too~

~I pray for their remembrance

in Heaven’s rendezvous~

~When I leave this earth in death

I ask you only this~

~To bury me at Soldiers Rest

in that of reminisce~

~To pray for me of Heaven send

in that I did my best~

~I was a Soldier to the end

unto my final rest~

~”We Were Soldiers” young in old

in the midst of war~

~Of so very long ago

my nightly dream of horror~

~I dream of death in never end

walking every turn~

~Remembering those of all my friends

whom never did return~

~Of those I killed in self defense

they had families too~

~I pray for their remembrance

in Heaven’s rendezvous~

Duke Sherman

Vietnam Veteran

Black Horse Soldier

Vietnam, 1971/1972

POW/MIA

MIA Facts Site

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MIA Facts Site by Joe Schlatter Links on this page Purpose of this site Table of Contents and What's New Breaking News Purpose of this site This site is published to provide facts about  the issue of Americans who remain "missing in action" (MIA) from the Vietnam War.  At the conclusion of the Vietnam War,  2,583 Americans did not return.  A vast mythology has built up around what really happened to these individuals.   Misinformation, pseudo-history, and deliberate fabrication are  rampant.  As a result, myths are regularly proclaimed to be fact.  This site destroys those myths. The Myths:  Not all US POWs were released by their captors at the end of the Vietnam War. The U.S. government knew that all POWs were not released. U.S. POWs remain in captivity today. There is a conspiracy within the U. S. government to hide the continued imprisonment of Americans and, whenever the truth emerges, it is debunked. The U.S. government is doing nothing to account for or recover missing men.  The Facts:  All U.S. POWs captured during the Vietnam War were released, either at Operation Homecoming (spring, 1973) or earlier.  The only men captured and not released are 113 who died in captivity; their identities and the circumstances of their deaths are known; some of their remains have been recovered/returned.. No U. S. prisoners of war have been abandoned by the U. S. government. No U.S POWs remained in captivity after the conclusion of Operation Homecoming.  There is no conspiracy within the U. S. government to conceal the abandonment of prisoners of war (who were not abandoned in the first place).  No U.S. POWs from Indochina were taken to the Soviet Union, China, or any other third country. The U.S. government has been -- since well before the end of the Vietnam War -- exerting all possible efforts to recover or account for missing men.   That effort continues  today and is unprecedented in the history of warfare. Those who promote these false claims have produced a vast array of half-truth, untruth, hearsay, unsubstantiated claims, personal attacks, and mythology.   The accumulated effect of years of nonsense has been exactly what one would expect:  The big lie has been accepted as truth in some quarters. How many Americans are "missing" in Southeast Asia? At the end of Operation Homecoming in the Spring of 1973, 2,646 Americans did not return from Southeast Asia -- they were "unaccounted for."  Since then,  957 have been "accounted for" by (1) recovering and identifying remains; (2) return of a small number of individuals after Operation Homecoming; (3) recovering the remains of several individuals as a group whose remains are not separately identifiable. Currently, 1,689 Americans are "unaccounted for" in Southeast Asia: Vietnam:   1,296 North Vietnam : 476 South Vietnam : 820 Laos :  328 Cambodia  :  58 China (territorial waters)  :  7 These figures were last updated on :  May 30, 2011 Figures include 468 at sea or overwater losses Click here for details on the number of missing. Click here to see a chart that lists the missing by service and by country of loss.

Vietnam War Casualties

Country	Branch of service	Number serving Worldwide	Number serving Southeast Asia	Number serving South Vietnam	Killed	Wounded	Missing
USA[35]	Army	4,368,000	2,276,000	1,736,000	38,209	96,802	545 {A}
	Marines	794,000	513,000	391,000	14,838	51,392	212 {B}
	Navy	1,842,000	229,000	174,000	2,555	4,178	369 {C}
	Air Force	1,740,000	385,000	293,000	2,584	1,021	544 {D}
	Coast Guard				7	59	0 {E}
	Civilians				19		32 {F}
	Total	8,744,000	3,403,000	2,594,000	58,212	153,452	1,711