Paul Koss - Veteran's Day in Lawsonville Lyrics

It's Veteran's Day in Lawsonville, the flags are flying high
The people line the city streets, the parade is passing by
This town's been here since twenty years before the nation's birth
Its sons and fathers, boys and men, lie resting in its earth
Now it's Veteran's Day in Lawsonville, as the town salutes its own
It's Veteran's Day in Lawsonville, for all the ones who made it home

A young boy says "There's Daddy! He served brave in Viet Nam"
And there's old Frank and Stanley, they survived Pearl Harbor's bombs
Joe was in Korea when his only child was born
And Charley left his brother on the sands of Desert Storm
Now it's Veteran's Day in Lawsonville, the old soldiers march along
It's Veteran's Day in Lawsonville, for all the ones who made it home

Now fifty thousand names are carved upon a marble wall
And Iwo Jima's flag still flies high above the mall
They're monuments to glory, but they're monuments to shame
No way to tell the stories, no way to share the pain

Now it's Veteran's Day in Lawsonville, the old soldiers march along
It's Veteran's Day in Lawsonville
For all the ones who made it home