Post Vietnam 
 
When a nation loses a war 
And reality begins to thaw 
The realisation sinks in 
Your not the image you once saw 
 
Masculinity takes over 
The troubled mind of the sober 
The need to prove 
To heal and soothe 
 
Budweiser and tattoos 
And cinemas with warped views 
History to be re writ  
So the nation can handle it 
 
But if your not a winner 
Does it make you a sinner 
Do you need a win 
Before belief sets in 
 
 
I have always found it amusing how as a nation America whom I love so much struggles to come to terms even now with the defeat they undoubtedly suffered in Vietnam. Also post war, how American men somehow sought constantly to prove they were/are real men if there can be such a thing.