CHILDHOOD DREAMS

My childhood dreams were so many and so vast

They were dreamed up without knowledge of the past

I wanted to have but just a few things

Like a job I liked and a home, that had the right ring

But that was not to be Cause I,m a Vietnam Veteran you see

When I walked at the airport that as a child I watched open         when all my dreams were just for hoping

All that now has to be forgotten

Now when I walk there I feel so downtrodden

IN Vietnam I died more times than I care to remember

So now my childhood dreams are just an amber

Those dreams are not out,there's still a slight glow

Where it will take me I really don't know

So please don't look at me as just another bum

A victim of Vietnam is what I've become.

Chaplain Howard Flexer

July 16,1991