IT'S TOO LATE TO THANK US NOW!

WE RETURNED WITH PAIN AND GRIEF, OUR BODIES AND MINDS WERE INCOMPLETE, AND YOU TURNED YOUR BACKS ON US.
WE REACHED OUT OUR HANDS FOR HELP FROM YOU, AND HATE AND PITY WAS RETURNED.
WE NEEDED COMPASSION AND A SMILE, BUT NOTHING CAME OUR WAY.
SO NOW IT'S TOO LATE TO THANK US NOW.

WE HAD NO DEFENSE, WE WERE IN OUR YOUTH
WE THOUGHT WE WERE DOING GOOD.
WE TURNED OUR HEART DEEP INSIDE AND THROUGH TIME IT WAS SLOW TO HEAL
WE TRIED TO DATE, THE ANSWER WAS NO AND PLEASE DO NOT ASK AGAIN.
SO IT'S TOO LATE TO THANK US NOW.

WE STROVE ON OUR OWN AND BUILT OUR LIVES, WORKED HARD AND MET OUR GOALS.
WE BANDED WITH BROTHERS TO HELP OUR OWN, TO HEAL THE WOUNDS OF WAR.
WE SCHOOLED THE CHILDREN OF THE FALLEN, THAT YOU HAD LEFT BEHIND
WE THANK THE SOLDIERS THAT PROTECT US DAY AAND NIGHT,
SO IT'S TO LATE TO THANK US NOW.

WE NO LONGER SHRINK WHEN YOU ASKED, DID YOU SERVE?
WE WHERE OUR SCARS WITH PRIDE
WE SPEAK OF OUR BROTHERS HEROIC DEEDS AND SELFLESS SACRIFICE.
WE HAVE GROWN STRONG AS 100 YEAR OAKS DEFENDING OUR UNIFORMED SONS AND DAUGHTERS.
WE WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO TREAD ON US, AS THE PAST WAS DONE
WE WILL PROTECT OUR CAVALRY BROTHERS, AND OUR WAY OF LIFE.
SO IT'S TOO LATE TO THANK US NOW.

WE ARE NO LONGER THE SCARED SOLDIER THAT YOU TAUNTED, JEERED AND SPAT.
WE ARE HARDENED WARRIORS ,THAT NO LONGER SEEK YOU PRAISE.
NOW THROUGH OUR VINDICATION, AFTER DECADES OF HURT YOU SEEK,TO THANK THE VIETNAM SOLDIER FOR THE SACRIFICES THAT THEY MADE-----NO BECAUSE IT'S TOO LATE TO THANK US NOW!

BUT AS YOU PONDER YOUR PAST, IF THERE IS A BIT OF REMORSE, YOU MAY WANT TO THANK THE SOLDIER THAT PROTECTS YOUR WAY OF LIFE.
BECAUSE YOU NEED TO THANK THEM NOW