My Platoon was on it's way to Saigon/

What were we doing here? The hippies back home were right. I could tell the Gulf of Tonkin Incident was all wrong/

When I saw my former Captain leave with tons of heroin/

I realized there were no real heroes, nor heroines/

I tried to tell my buddies, but they were always in denial/

So I was on my own, us as a species going into a downward spiral/

We stopped in a village, to rob the locals of some supplies/

Will these friendlies later become enemies? They had every right to, in my eyes/

We were about to leave, when Private Taylor got shot/

Big Harold was next to go. Man, I was tied in a knot/

All I could do was run, who knew where the Sappers were/

I weaved through bush and huts, and then I saw her/

In that split second, our soles connected. She grabbed my hand to come in/

I found a way out of death. Nearly blind, the powers of the universe gave me passion/

The End?

Dedicated to my Uncle Ron, a Vietnam Veteran.

EDIT: 20 years of war. Over 2 million vietnamese killed.

Daniel Ellsberg Exposes the US Government

(Pentagon Papers Documentry) Part 1.avi

vinnie paz's verse included in version below

His father's story