To vandals of the Kansas City
Vietnam War Memorial
Don’t mock this wall
Don’t say these soldiers
didn’t fight a real war
While you watched playoff games,
they crouched in the mud and missed their women
They are of the sixty thousand,
robbed of their youth
by men in press conferences
Don’t mock this wall
Don’t say these soldiers
wanted to make war
They only wanted to live out their dreams
They just wanted to be like you
Slide your fingers over their names
and tell me you can’t hear
the echo of their voices
chanting Peace! Peace!
Let this wall be
It belongs to them
They paid for it