Friendly Fire - Rustdawg73

Friendly Fire
The report said the rounds came from the wrong direction,
and the investigation was a kind of deflection,
and the family received the visit and the flag and the regret,
and the incident report is classified, they have not read it yet.

Friendly fire is the cruelest kind of vocabulary,
because the word friendly is doing too much missionary,
work against the word fire, and the math does not compute,
when the man who loved your son was the one who pulled the route.

Friendly fire, friendly fire,
the word they use when the planning crossed the wire,
friendly fire, friendly fire,
when the coordinates are wrong and the guns do not retire,
there is no friendly way to say that soldiers shot their own,
there is no friendly in the fire and there is no friendly in the tone,
friendly fire, friendly fire.

I was with a unit once when the close air came in wrong,
and the men who called it in were not confused for long,
because the rounds corrected but the seconds in between,
are the longest seconds that a man in the field has seen.

The men who fire the friendly fire are not the ones to blame,
the blame is in the system and the fog they call the war,
but the family does not care about the fog or the system or the cause,
they only know the flag and the administrative pause.