[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 51 (Tuesday, April 30, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E667]
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                       POEM FOR VIETNAM VETERANS

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                            HON. MARK GREEN

                              of wisconsin

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 30, 2002

  Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, I submit this poem for the 
Record.

           Written and Dedicated to All the Vietnam Veterans

                  (By Boatswains Mate Robert W. Perry)

     We were the men sent to Nam
     We were there to save the day
     And for protecting these people's freedom
     We were paid about four bucks a day

     We walked through these smelly paddies
     It was always so damn hot
     My buddies just kept dying
     In a land that God forgot

     We trudged through the bush with our sixteens
     Eating and breathing orange dust
     We worked like we were on a chain gang
     And always too tired to cuss

     All the time them bullets kept coming
     It was more than we could stand
     Hell folks we weren't convicts
     We were defenders for their foreign land

     So when this life is over
     And there are no more worries to stand
     We're gonna do our last parading in the far away
     Promised Land

     Once there, St. Peter will greet us and he will yell
     ``Come on in you men from Nam, you've done your stretch in 
           hell.''

     Sadly missed by the American people. We will never forget 
           their plight.

           

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