[00:00.03]The grave that they dug him had flowers[00:06.87]Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors,[00:13.47]And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone.[00:19.47]He's gone.[00:35.70]When the wars of our nation did beckon,[00:41.40]A man barely twenty did answer the calling.[00:48.90]Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation,[00:55.50]He's gone,[00:59.40]But Eternity knows him, and it knows what we've done.[01:14.40]And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers[01:20.34]Leaving brown, muddy clay where the earth had been dry.[01:27.00]And deep in the trench he waited for hours,[01:33.60]As he held to his rifle and prayed not to die.[01:41.13]But the silence of night was shattered by fire[01:47.76]As guns and grenades blasted sharp through the air.[01:54.42]And one after another his comrades were slaughtered.[01:58.74]sponsored links[02:01.14]In morgue of Marines, alone standing there.[02:05.61]He crouched ever lower, ever lower with fear.[02:11.22]"They can't let me die! The can't let me die here![02:17.25]I'll cover myself with the mud and the earth.[02:22.74]I'll cover myself! I know I'm not brave![02:27.78]The earth! the earth! the earth is my grave."[03:01.23]When the wars of our nation did beckon,[03:05.07]A man barely twenty did answer the calling.[03:17.10]Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation,[03:25.47]He's gone.