Atheists In Foxholes

Two young men in vietnam Sit in a foxhole one night While chatting and talking about there families and sharing pictures of each others wives But along in the Dark distance Came a bright and shimmering light The light came down from the sky like a shooting star in midflight Charley was spreading into the jungles of the night Shouting out to one another Tat ca deu chet dêm nay which means they all die tonight As the men laid in the foxhole watching people running for there life One of the men said we must flee the other man said not I The one man said In the bright shimmering light But why does one not flee and run too save his own life The other man looked deep Deep down in the man's eyes and says I shall do as my fathers did I shall stay, I shall fight and I shall die The fleeing man had a face a face full of surprise He asked why does thou not flee with me on this very hour tonight He said I just can't do it it's not the way I was raised my mother always taught me to have a little faith See I believe in God and I believe he has a plan and if it's my time to go might as well be like a man So now do you see why, why one does not flee tonight why I choose to stay and risk my life and fight? The fleeing man said no and ran into the dark jungle night So the one man kept his word with every inch of his might sitting in his little foxhole and fighting throughout the rest of the night Until his upmost surprise came mornings first daylight he seemed to have survived survived for one more night Re-gathered with his troops all thankful to be alive the man began to search for his friend that ran off that night asking all the troops if they had seem him around he finally came to the realization that his friend was nowhere to be found But he forgot to check where he should have looked before because there laid his friend colorless and lifeless on the floor So the Vietnam war ended, it took so many lives but the man who said that he shall stay and fight now lives at home with that same wife for he every sunday visits a tall white ivory stone on the front it reads, I miss you and I cant believe that your gone But with all the Commemorative plaques and monumental poles theres one saying that still holds true there are no atheists in foxholes