It's not CBS or NBC, ABC or
CNN that 's given us the
freedom of the press.
Not Jerry Falwell, Larry Flint, Ted Kennedy, or Jesse Jackson
giving us the freedom to verbally express.
Not the campus organizers, or all the demonstrations,
giving us the
freedom to march, freely and disagree, oh can't you see.
CHORUS:
It has always been the soldier. Who has made the sacrifice.
Standing strong and proud in battle. Willing to lay
down his life.
Somewhere there's a soldier, and he's looking at a picture
of his little girl.
How he wishes he were home.
And somewhere there's a soldier and he's reading a love letter
from his wife,
and she's telling him how she feels so all alone.
And somewhere there's a mom and dad who cry late in the night,
for a son who won't be coming home. A son who gave his life,
freedom isn't free, oh can't you see.
CHORUS:
It has always been the soldier. Who has made the sacrifice.
Standing strong and proud in battle. Willing to lay down his life.
To the angry man who shakes his
fist and burns the stars and stripes.
The same flag that drapes the coffins of those who gave their lives.
There's
no other place that you will go or you have ever been.
Where the blood of soldiers gives the right to burn the flag again.
CHORUS:
It has always been the soldier. Who has made the sacrifice.
Standing strong and proud in battle. Willing to lay down his life.
It has always been the soldier
on the land, in air and sea.
It's always been the soldier fighting for our liberty.
Fighting for our liberty.
Oooo Oooo the soldier.

~
Until each one returns safe and sound,
let us pray a prayer for our troops, air, sea and on the ground.~