{"id":1309,"date":"2007-12-21T04:21:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T09:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/writings\/2007\/12\/21\/in-a-dense-jungle\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T04:21:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T09:21:22","slug":"in-a-dense-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/12\/in-a-dense-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"IN A DENSE JUNGLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a dense jungle across the sea;<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve got men fighting, crying, &amp; dying.<br \/>\nIn the air the smell of rotting bodies linger;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the heat &amp; humidity that makes &#8217;em cook.<br \/>\nBlood spilled on the ground;<br \/>\nPOW\/MIA&#8217;s can&#8217;t be found.<\/p>\n<p>The government say their looking;<br \/>\nYet, is it true:  What are we going to do?<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve been telling them to get our men;<br \/>\nThe ladies cry &amp; we don&#8217;t know when \u2011<br \/>\nthey will, if they will, ever come home.<\/p>\n<p>They fought a war that wasn&#8217;t ours;<br \/>\nAll we could do was pray &amp; look at the stars.<br \/>\nWhen will our boys come home?<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re all alone, we want our boys to come home.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;d go and come;<br \/>\nAlways on the run.<br \/>\nAgent Orange all around;<br \/>\nBeing dropped from planes to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>They could be sitting in tiger cages;<br \/>\nThe treatment they get is outrageous.<br \/>\nThey may be beaten or worse;<br \/>\nwe love them.<\/p>\n<p>They fought a war that wasn&#8217;t ours;<br \/>\nAll we could do was pray &amp; look at the stars.<br \/>\nWhen will our boys come home?<br \/>\nWe want them &amp; we&#8217;re all alone.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">wil becker<br \/>\n1992\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/images\/public\/somerights20.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a dense jungle across the sea; We&#8217;ve got men fighting, crying, &amp; dying. In the air the smell of rotting bodies linger; It&#8217;s the heat &amp; humidity that makes &#8217;em cook. Blood spilled on the ground; POW\/MIA&#8217;s can&#8217;t be found. The government say their looking; Yet, is it true: What are we going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}