SOMEWHERE IN TIME IS THE YOUNGER VERSION OF US

 Somewhere in time there is the younger version of us
 People say in the future we will travel through time
 And that we will go back and visit events from history


 If this were possible without endangering the balance
 Like the time continuum or altering any future events
 We'd just observe our past history without altering it


 We could take our loved ones back to see how it was
 They could see for themselves what really happened
 They might understand why we are the way we are today


 They could see what we had to face there in Vietnam
 That we were outnumbered and shorthanded but we held
 They'd see that we tried hard to keep Vietnam free


 It may do more harm than good if they did understand
 Why we had always kept it buried so deep inside of us
 Would it actually be to much for them to deal with?


 I guess it would be better to just leave it in the past
 Maybe it's far better for them not to know what happened
 They may shout out warnings to the younger version of us


© Terry Sasek - Alwaysawarrior - All Rights Reserved


 Sometimes we might wish that our birth family, relatives
 or even our friends could see for themselves just what we
 all had faced and overcame during our own tours of duty in
 the war with the help and encouragement from our brother
 warriors with whom we had served with in Vietnam. But then
 again sometimes I do find myself thinking that it really
 wouldn't matter at all to them after all the time that has
 past by, since they never faced what we had faced at such
 a young age, I guess it would be very hard for them all to
 understand those things we had gone through and it is why
 many of us still can't let go of the experiences which we
 all had survived and that have made us who we are today.

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