Skipper and I were four when they bombed Pearl Harbor
Our childhoods unfolded in the midst of the war
In the back yard we fought in French trenches
Battled the Nazis, attacked the Japanese
Stormed the mock beaches as invading Marines
But nothing was more exciting than the Air Force
B-29s delivering their pay loads
Fighters taking off from aircraft carriers
And here, a P-51 Mustang destroying a Nazi fighter
It’s hard to imagine such courage
High in the sky, mortal clashes with enemy pilots
Google supplied these sobering facts
Twenty-three thousand American aircraft
Were lost in combat in World War II
Seventy-five thousand airmen died
We owe these heroes eternal gratitude 
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