PROUD AMERICAN's blog: "Go ahead make my day"

                                                               A Letter To A Fallen Soldier

       I searched for you over the horizon,

       remembering way back when,

       you went away and said goodbye

       never to return again.

       I knew it was part of your job

       and the risk was always there

       but this was your third tour

       and it's really not fair.

       Your first two were in Iraq,

       where it all began, but then

       you were pulled out of there

       and sent to Afghanistan.

         The president promised

         to bring you back, by the end

         of his second year, now he's going

         on his fourth and still you're not here.

          Now I'm all alone

          with nothing but memories

          of what was yet to be,

          I wish I could turn back the hands of time

          and tell you how much you mean to me.

          He never served our country

          so there's something I'd like to know

          would he do things differant

          if his daughters had to go ?