Foreword: The poem dedicates to the soldiers are fighting or discharged, for whoever serves the country, protect the people, freedom, and democracy. Particularly, the allies of Vietnam veteran, actually, the Vietnam veteran of Australia is going to remember the Long Tan day on August 18, 2018.
Hoa Minh Truong
Whoever serves the country
Fighting against the enemy.
Protect the freedom and democracy
Includes the people and property
The soldier wrote the national history
The heroic epic praises the milk-livered persons
They are the wall of nation
Keeping the country safe from the generation passed over the next generations
The soldier put the national interest
Above the individual interest and the rivals
Not serving for any political party as the communist
Neither the tool of any dictatorial and ruthless regime.
The soldier represents the national spirit
Whatever, whoever conscripts or enlists
The martyr fits
When the country needs
The patriotic heart wakes
Keeping away the state from the evil and thug
Fighting for the national flag
They reflect the courage
Soldier represents the national strength
Fighting for the country is the honored mission
The people always respect
The sons and daughters of history made
The people have never forgotten
Whoever sacrifices the life for the country and the people.
The solder’s spirit has never died
Despite time passed but the heritage remains
The soldier’s monuments marked the anonymous heroes
Who died and sacrificed apart of the body for the country alive
The generations continue to serve the nation
The soldier doesn’t mind the losing or winning
But the country promotes the patriot’s heart
Even the fallen fighters
Who laid down the body in the battlefield
At somewhere else are on the forest, sea or the hill.
The body shattered on sky or plane shot down by enemy’s bullet.
Even though while detaining into the enemy’s hand
The honored spirit has never changed
The soldier fights for the nation
The life exchanges the patriotic mission
While the academics succeeds the study and earning money
The lawyer purposes the legal fees
The business person aims to make a profit.
But the soldiers accept to put the life at risk
They ignore the personal interest
Protection country is the prime focus
The soldiers have never died
Despite the time is gone.
After the contribution to the country is done
The soldiers are not alone
The people and nation always remember
They are the true heroes
The soldiers have never died.
And also never lost the title of patriot.
Lest we forgot.