vietnam

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vietnam

There is a place called Vietnam, that we were taught to fear

All that communist aggression, and why we could never let it near

But what we were never told, and what we never saw

Were very special people, who just wanted to defend their country from us all

So if you look at history, there is one thing that you will find

And that is that no culture wants another to make up their mind

Even though things may be different from what we want to see

Are we really justified to keep others from what they want to be?

And freedoms just another word for not being oppressed,

But when you look at Ho Chi Minh, he was nothing but the best

For what he saw were autocracies, that no one should ever see

And these were against his people, who just wanted to be free

So he tried and tried in vain, to bend the western ear

But the more he tried in earnest, the more we were taught to fear

So we sent our men so brave, to help this country out

Oblivious to their culture that we were again taught to doubt

And it cost so many lives, that it is hard to put to rest

How those who didn’t know, wanted to put war to the test

For war should never happen, unless those “killing fields” begin

Cause then the time is right, to save our fellow man

So if we can just build on all our ancestors taught

This world could be quite different, with no more wars to be fought

And if this just can happen and become more than just a dream

Then we can really value life, without ever being mean

And learn as much from others as we learn from ourselves

And work towards universal peace, and put war finally on the shelf.