Fort Leonard Wood is an Army Basic Training camp in Missouri (my son trained there a few years ago). This song is about an incident that occured in Tall Afar (in Iraq near Syria) earlier this year. A car filled with a family returning home was mistaken for insurgents and fired upon by US soldiers. The parents were killed, leaving the children orphans. Newsweek did a haunting story on it last April and the idea of writing a song about it has been in my head ever since.
It�s getting pretty late
Been up all night long
They told me back at Leonard Wood
I vowed to keep America
How could we possibly know
I held a little girl
�2005 David Elon Preston
I wonder what time it is in Omaha
Must be something I ate
Disagrees with me
Blood turned black on my combat boots
Ain�t done nothing wrong
But I still feel sick inside
That freedom don�t come free
All that stands between us and them
Is me
Far from evil�s will
To keep my people safe
I kill
The car was just a family
We tried to make them stop
But they did not understand
Her mother�s blood on my combat boots
I never saw her tears
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