Always a smile to encourage
never sour or glum
I don't know what her name was
we just called her mum

Somewhere between thirty and forty
how ancient that seemed then
for we were all of twenty
just boys dressed up as men

She was a nursing corps sister
caring for wounded young boys
but her light jokes in the morning
made her one of our joys

How could she get a bloke laughing
when he knew of the pain yet to come
I don't know, but that was the magic
of the angel we called mum

Where is she now I wonder
still caring perhaps for all ranks
I hope someday she'll read this
an' know that her boys said "THANKS"
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Aussie: Alot of people in the US do not know that we served in Vietnam, let alone our nurses. So this one is for them. Pro Humanitate=For Humanity