How many Mikes?
How many Joes?
How many Jakes?
Jacks?
Johns?

How many Steves?
How many Bens?
How many Kyles?
Kieths?
Shauns?

How many Janes?
How many Kates?
How many Anns?
Yvettes?
Yvonnes?

How many daughters?
How many sons?
How many best friends gone?

Today it's four thousand.
Tomorrow it's more.
How do we figure the winning score?

How do we end it?
Where does it stop?
When does the final curtain drop?

How far must our best and our bravest roam -
and when will they send our children home?

How many fathers
and brothers
and wives?
How many children?
How many lives?

How many doctors
and teachers
and poets?
They say life is precious -
when will they show it?

How far must our best and our bravest roam -
and when will they send our children home?

10/25/2005