Why would a great, strong nation, symbolized by the dignified and regal bald eagle, send its sons and daughters of the oath into the lion's mouth ~ some fallen in a courageous soldier youth's death, returning home beneath the American flag of the stars and stripes that promised to care, some of a spirit that's exhausted, washed gray, dreams of the soldiers' sleep fractured in the wounds of body and soul, the human toll, it's a human toll. When the U.S. government wanted our soldiers to be passive and silent, embrace the suck and fade away, the human toll, it's a human toll, some unknowingly drank poisoned water living on the U.S. Camp Lejeune base, some breathed in toxic burn pits air in Iraq and Afghanistan, sickened and died, this wasn't from the enemy, but from the guilty U S. government, I sit in the darkness of an empathic's despair, the human toll, it's a human toll.