A Vet's Service

Grandpa Grove was in the Navy, fought in World War 2 Dad jumped out of airplanes with the Army's eighty-two A pair of uncles went to 'Nam, wounded in and out Now there's one who sent his son to fight without a doubt Think of all the families who sent their boys and girls To sweat & work & shed their blood, all around the world We all just did our duties, what we thought was right Sacrificing safety, so you can sleep at night Why do we serve Why do we serve We serve for freedom; project our Nation's rights We serve for education; learning all we might We serve because it's family; Tradition and much more We serve to go and see the World, outside the chopper door Why do we serve Joined just past high school, after a year of laying low Ask my recruiter anything... he didn't know Bootcamp then to Corps School, saw my first patient die Then Labor and Delivery, was the apple of nurses' eye A second trip to bootcamp, they made my head a jar Off to Okinawa, in the field, or in the bar A Stormy Desert blew my mind; Did my Flesh no good Blink of eye there went twenty- five, still standing where I stood