Where were you when we needed you?

I didn’t go to Viet Nam, I was too young to fight.
Truth is I wasn’t sure in 73 I wanted to go.
In ’76 when I joined I was spit on anyway,
Called a killer and burner, I just wanted to serve.

Now people come and say
Thank you for your service.
Sometimes I want to shout
Where were you when we needed you?
Where were the thanks and applause?

Men still died and mothers still cried
Women still bled in green and blue
They were the brave, the proud, the few.

We’re still free cause of what was done
On Asian soil and foreign land
Even the VFW turned them away.

Are you proud of us now?
Where were you when we needed you?

My Father died and they gave us a flag.
On behalf of a grateful nation they said.
I thought, this nation doesn’t care.

Now our leaders waste time thinking
While young folk are bleeding
Will they be asking 30 years from now
Where were you when we need you?
What did you do beside stick a magnet on your car?

A ribbon is nice when I come home tonight
But it won’t stop a bullet in the air.
Where were you when we needed you?

Thirty years all told I did.
I’m proud of every day.
If you send them now send them to win
Not stop short and die.
Don’t waste their blood for some
Political gain, it’s to precious and in short Supply.

If you want to support a soldier, grab a gun and serve
There is room on the line tonight.

Who died today? Will you remember tomorrow?
Whose son is without a dad or mom will you waste
The sacrifice?

Support your soldiers with the things they need
And send them love. It’s you their fighting for.

We forgot that day in 2001 when the towers came down
It’s been too long to think about.
But it will happen again without that soldier on the ground.

So if you want to thank me send them what they need.
Or join them and be free.
Service to our country is where you ought to be.

Don’t make them ask in years to come,
Where were you when we needed you?