Tim Buckley - Once I Was (HQ)

LTC Stephen F. with the utmost respect and dignity for the Soldiers of Vietnam! Thank you for your service! Great share and song my friends!

In the opening of this video, the soldier is worried about being forgotten - a legitimate fear.
War is a dirty, cruel business and no one but the soldier who has lived through it, can understand the horror and raw brutality of it.
For those who are safe at home having never received a shot fired at them in anger, no words, no photos, no motion pictures with great actors can give the viewer even the remotest sense of the drama, fear, the sounds - the many, many sounds, the adrenal rush, smell of cordite and blood, the heat or cold, the anxiety, the carnage, the grief of loosing a buddy or the many thoughts that are rushing through the warriors mind during a fire-fight no matter the level of intensity.
And when war drags on and on, those at home can easily grow weary of it and fall into the routine of their daily lives, forgetting the rigors of those our leaders have sent in harms way experience day after day. Never should the life of the combat soldier ever be taken lightly or 'matter of factly' for they have experienced a bit of hell on this earth for a time they wish never to repeat.
Honoring their service and their memory is the least that should be done; forgetting them is reprehensible and a black mark on our society.

I WILL NEVER FORGET THESE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN!