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Fire Mission, Rain on Me |
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Fire mission, fire mission; rain on me
Our compounds overrun with fighting mad VC
Let them taste US artillery
Send thunder guns brimstone decree
Victor Charlie's in the wire
Send us your fury to inspire
Rain Hell's angelic shells of mighty submission
To put their fighting in remission
Fire mission,
Fire mission
Rain on me
We're deadly desperate can't you see
Reach out and touch someone tonight
By the dawn's early light
Make them run from your fiery demolition
Send them all to hell's oblivion
Fire mission, fire mission
Their force your mighty guns can decommission
Rain on my position
Or I'll nevermore daylight see
Rain on me
Victor Charlie's in the perimeter
A call to cease and desist send by airmail letter
Your missive intemperate souls to blister
Fire mission, fire mission, they're all over us,
Fighting mad and in such a fuss
We're dug in pretty deep
Herald angels to keep
Holding on for dear life, so rain on me
Heavy with good old USA artillery
Make Charley from our palace guard for his life flee
0 rain your fiery rain on me |
By
Gary Jacobson
Copyright 2002
Listed
July 16, 2010 |
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About
Author...
In 1966-67, Gary Jacobson served with B Co
2nd/7th 1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam as a combat infantryman and is the recipient of the Purple
Heart.
Gary, who resides in Idaho writes stories he
hopes are never forgotten, perhaps compelled by
a Vietnamese legend that says, "All poets are
full of silver threads that rise inside them as
the moon grows large." So Gary says he
writes because "It is that these silver
threads are words poking at me � I must let them
out. I must! I write for my brothers who cannot
bear to talk of what they've seen and to educate
those who haven't the foggiest idea about the
effect that the horrors of war have on
boys-next-door."
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