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	“When I was a little girl I had the biggest crush on a boy named Russell Taylor,” Deborah Collins Dottle, Elkins resident and author of “The Wall” — a poem written in honor of veterans of theVietnam War — said, “I fell and hurt myself and he picked me up and brought me home; he was my neighbor. Then he went off to war and never came back."Check out the rest of this story from THE INTERMOUNTAIN newspaper article in our calendar and notes link.
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	Lyrics TWENTY-PLUS YEARS HAVE GONE BY I STILL REMAIN THE SAME HOW CAN I SEE TOMORROW WHEN YESTERDAY YET REMAINS I LIVE WITHIN A PRISON WHOSE WALLS WERE BUILT BY YOU AMERICA, WHY CAN'T YOU SEE MY LOVE FOR YOU WAS TRUE WE MUST SEARCH OUR HEARTS FOR MEANING TO THAT WHICH LIVES WITHIN AND SOAR WITH WINGS OF EAGLES TOWARD A BATTLE WE WILL WIN WHEN DARKNESS FILLED A FOREIGN LAND AND YOUTH BECAME A MAN MY CHILDHOOD DREAMS I LAID ASIDE TO SERVE IN VIETNAM NO ONE COULD EVER COMPREHEND EXCEPT HE WALK THE MILE THE ICY HANDS OF SILENT FEAR AS YOUR HEART IS PLACED ON TRIAL WE WERE MEN WHO LOVED OUR COUNTRY WE WERE THERE TO HEED HER CALL WE MUST ALL BE STRENGTHENED SOLDIERS AS WE STAND TO FACE THE WALL WE LEFT THE STATES AS CARE FREE BOYS CAME BACK DEMENTED MEN TORMENTED WlTH THE NIGHTMARE HAD WE LOST OUR DEAREST FRIEND AMERICA THAT FRIEND WAS YOU HAVE YOU FORGOT YOUR OWN AT TIMES IT MAKES US WONDER IF WE FOUGHT THE WAR ALONE WE MUST SEARCH OUR HEARTS FOR MEANING TO THAT WHICH LIVES WITHIN AND SOAR WITH WINGS OF EAGLES TOWARD A BATTLE WE WILL WIN WE WERE MEN WHO LOVED OUR COUNTRY WE WERE THERE TO HEED HER CALL WE MUST ALL BE STRENGTHENED SOLDIERS AS WE STAND TO FACE THE WALL OUT NUMBERED BY THE ENEMY AIR-RAIDS UPON OUR OWN AMERICA, WHY CANT YOU SEE OUR HEARTS HAVE TURNED TO STONE WE LEFT OUR COUNTRY IN THE NIGHT RETURNED BEFORE THE DAWN GREETED BY A STORM OF RAGE FOR AMERICA HAD WITHDRAWN WE MUST SEARCH OUR HEARTS FOR MEANING TO THAT WHICH LIVE WITHIN AND SOAR WITH WINGS OF EAGLES TOWARD A BATTLE WE WILL WIN, WE DON'T SEEK TO CRITICIZE YOU OR CAUSE YOU TO FEEL SHAME BUT AMERICA, CAN'T YOU SEE WE WEREN'T THE ONES TO BLAME THERE WILL NEVER BE A HERO WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM THERE WILL NEVER BE A WELCOME FOR THE MAN YOU THINK I AM WE WERE MEN WHO LOVED OUR COUNTRY WE WERE THERE TO HEED HER CALL WE MUST ALL BE STRENGTHENED SOLDIERS AS WE STAND TO FACE THE WALL A MAN WITHOUT A PURPOSE STRIVES TO FIND HIS WORTH A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY NEEDS TO FIND REBIRTH WE EACH MUST BOND TOGETHER TO FIGHT THIS ENDLESS WAR TO FIND A PLACE OF SHELTER LEST WE EXIST NO MORE WE MUST SEARCH OUR HEARTS FOR MEANING TO THAT WHICH LIVES WITHIN AND SOAR WITH WINGS OF EAGLES TOWARD A BATTLE WE WILL WIN WE WERE MEN WHO LOVED OUR COUNTRY WE WERE THERE TO HEED HER CALL WE MUST ALL BE STRENGTHENED SOLDIERS AS WE STAND TO FACE THE WALL

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