1 00:00:02,964 --> 00:00:08,106 The grave that they dug him had flowers 2 00:00:09,607 --> 00:00:14,389 Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors, 3 00:00:16,690 --> 00:00:21,721 And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone. 4 00:00:23,742 --> 00:00:25,722 He's gone. 5 00:00:38,723 --> 00:00:42,993 When the wars of our nation did beckon, 6 00:00:44,594 --> 00:00:49,972 A man barely twenty did answer the calling. 7 00:00:51,873 --> 00:00:56,081 Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation, 8 00:00:58,582 --> 00:00:59,882 He's gone, 9 00:01:02,483 --> 00:01:04,491 But Eternity knows him, 10 00:01:06,584 --> 00:01:11,420 and it knows what we've done. 11 00:01:15,421 --> 00:01:23,270 And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers 12 00:01:23,271 --> 00:01:26,326 Leaving brown, muddy clay 13 00:01:26,372 --> 00:01:29,772 where the earth had been dry. 14 00:01:29,773 --> 00:01:36,337 And deep in the trench he waited for hours, 15 00:01:36,338 --> 00:01:39,338 As he held to his rifle 16 00:01:39,939 --> 00:01:42,639 and prayed not to die. 17 00:01:44,140 --> 00:01:46,524 But the silence of night 18 00:01:47,425 --> 00:01:49,825 was shattered by fire. 19 00:01:50,826 --> 00:01:55,856 As guns and grenades blasted sharp through the air. 20 00:01:57,057 --> 00:02:02,689 And one after another his comrades were slaughtered. 21 00:02:02,690 --> 00:02:05,390 In morgue of Marines, 22 00:02:05,491 --> 00:02:08,617 alone standing there. 23 00:02:08,618 --> 00:02:14,232 He crouched ever lower, ever lower with fear. 24 00:02:14,433 --> 00:02:16,558 "They can't let me die! 25 00:02:16,634 --> 00:02:19,997 The can't let me die here! 26 00:02:19,998 --> 00:02:25,498 I'll cover myself with the mud and the earth. 27 00:02:25,499 --> 00:02:27,632 I'll cover myself! 28 00:02:28,033 --> 00:02:32,433 I know I'm not brave! 29 00:02:32,434 --> 00:02:35,491 The earth! the earth! 30 00:02:36,992 --> 00:02:43,649 the earth is my grave". 31 00:03:03,750 --> 00:03:08,632 When the wars of our nation did beckon, 32 00:03:10,633 --> 00:03:17,099 A man barely twenty did answer the calling. 33 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:24,863 Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation, 34 00:03:28,864 --> 00:03:30,464 He's gone.