Sands Of Iwo Jima (1) - Green Acres

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Today is Memorial Day in the United States of America.

 

I read this recently, from a book written by our former president and commander of allied forces in Europe in WWII, Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

"We believe individual liberty, rooted in human dignity, is man's greatest treasure."

 

Today is to honor the ultimate sacrifice the few made over the sands of time, so we can have & enjoy this "individual liberty" they gave everything for.

 

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🎼[Sands Of Iwo Jima (The Drive By Truckers)] 🎼

 

🎼[Sands Of Iwo Jima (The Drive By Truckers Live)] 🎼

 

 

George A. was at the movies in December '41

They announced it in the lobby what had just gone on

He drove up from Birmingham back to the family's farm

Thought he'd get him a deferment there's was much work to be done

He was a family man, even in those days

But Uncle Sam decided he was needed anyway

In the South Pacific over half a world away

He believed in God and Country, things was just that way

 

Just that way....

 

When I was just a kid I spent every weekend

On the farm that he grew up on so I guess so did I

And we'd stay up watching movies on the black and white TV

We watched "The Sands of Iwo Jima" starring John Wayne

 

Every year in June George A. goes to a reunion

Of the men that he served with and their wives and kids and grandkids

My Great Uncle used to take me and I'd watch them recollect

About some things I couldn't comprehend

 

And I thought about that movie, asked if it was that way

He just shook his head and smiled at me in such a loving way

As he thought about some friends he will never see again

He said "I never saw John Wayne on the sands of Iwo Jima"

 

Most of those men are gone now but he goes still every year

And George A's still doing fine, especially for his years

He's still living on that homestead in the house that he was born in

And I sure wish I could go see him today

 

He never drove a new car though he could easily afford it

He'd just buy one for the family and take whatever no one wanted

He said a shiny car didn't mean much after all the things he'd seen

George A. never saw John Wayne on the sands of Iwo Jima

 

- Patterson Hood

 

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