BROKEN HEARTS...
Rollin' thunder
flashing light...
penetrates the
darkest night...
Memories of
another time...
when the world
didn't rhyme...
B-29's loaded
with bombs galore...
can't lift off
with any more...
Set a heading
to Kobe Japan...
ready are we
man to man...
Fifteen hundred
miles to fly...
with explodin' flak
in the sky...
Eleven men
may return again...
another mission
to begin...
But some
will have to stay...
where their ships
fell today...
POW's are they
if there was time...
to jump away
from a burning '29...
Some couldn't jump
for they were dead...
and fell downward
as they bled...
Broken hearts
and broken homes...
received no dog tags
not even bones...
Empty places
and hopeless faces...
forever mark the way
of airmen who died today...
War is a cruel foe
when youth she craves...
divider of life
digger of graves...