Everyone wonders what is it for?

When they unleash the dogs of war

Inevitably the loss of life will be the score

Sometimes they don’t even know what they’re fighting for,

Some claim it’s for flag and country

To others it’s from skullduggery

Those who give their lives so we can be free

Those gone forever as we bow on bended knee,

The angel flights who land quietly in the night

Those courageous men who put up such a fight

The tears that may blur our sight

As evil tests our nation’s might,

The father, the son, and even women too

Caught on a battlefield so far from view

Those gardens of stone and the grass beneath your shoes

Wars past simply seem like old news,

But what if you had been there to see the blood?

What if you had been there lying in the mud?

The enemy’s artillery coming in like a flood

Holding the wounded body of your best bud,

The glory of the righteous fight

Meaning little to those who fell in the darkest of nights

Their voices still whisper from hallowed gravesites

For the widows their tears flow and their throats grow tight,

Kids who’ll never see daddy again

A uniform sits in a closet since I can’t remember when

Veterans thinking of their fellow brave men

All of us wishing the killing never starts again.