This song is clearly about the Vietnam Solier's experience.
The first verses describe the soldier's desire to survive in the jungle and live to share their story before their life is cut down, and also addresses the pain and sens of failure to their country of the soldiers when they did come home, to a country that failed to recognize their effort and blamed them for the war.
But the song resolves itself in the last verse in saying "I sing this for"... meaning, I did this for your freedom and my country and whether the listener feels they needed the sacrifice they made, they accept it.
Thank you to all of you who fought and died for our freedom.
This song is clearly about the Vietnam Solier's experience. The first verses describe the soldier's desire to survive in the jungle and live to share their story before their life is cut down, and also addresses the pain and sens of failure to their country of the soldiers when they did come home, to a country that failed to recognize their effort and blamed them for the war.
But the song resolves itself in the last verse in saying "I sing this for"... meaning, I did this for your freedom and my country and whether the listener feels they needed the sacrifice they made, they accept it.
Thank you to all of you who fought and died for our freedom.