Posted on September 4, 2007 at 07:03 AM by Bubba

I'll never forget hearing the song for the first time. I was in high school and young men were starting to feel the allure of patriotism. Week by week, more and more stories of combat horror and glory in Vietnam began to sift back to us... and I even remember the first of my classmates to fall. His name is Tony Smucker and he died in 1964, when I was a junior.

Now, as then, young Americans will answer the call.