MACHINES OF WAR

How could we have lost


the war with machines


That ruled the land


and sky

The vietcong, vietminh

and the NVA

Had nothing but

a reason for to die

We had 3 tanks on patrol

they had hootched up with

us the night before

The next morning they started

their engines

there was a mighty roar

They traversed their


turrets knocking trees down


making a terrible din


With so much noise and


lack of discipline


we just had to win

We escorted the tanks

onto the hard baked padi

fields and started looking

for a large enemy cache

The exact location we

didn't know only that

it was by the padi field

next to a well worn track

We walked all morning

till mid afternoon

sitting ducks we had been

all the way

We met the Aussies and

they took over and

walked just a 100 yards

that day