O happy day when I met you.

It was the beginning of a long

Relationship until we got married

And started a family.

The war put a hold on our relationship,

Until I was safely able to come home.

War sure changes your attitude on life,

Knowing that any minute it could end.

Let no one think a soldier leaves war behind him.

No, many a G. I. found this out when he got home.

You cannot erase hell from your mind, no sir.

Thirty years I struggled with it, and then it was gone.