War is always a terrible sight
When two armies engage in a fight.
  Soldiers both foe and friend
  Remain dead at the end
No matter which country was right.

World War II was bloodier than most,
Fought from Iwo Jima to Normandy's coast.
  There had never been a war
  In all the years before
Which had so many deaths it could boast.

The Axis forces were quite strong
And had slowly been marching along.
  Hitler's troops seemed quite vast
  Conquering land they passed
In the constant quest for Lebensraum.

His troops marched on causing bad news
For the free world (especially Jews).
  Yet when refugees from the war
  Begged to land on our shore,
We just simply ignored and refused.

Japan struck, having as cowards gauged us
But the bombs at Pearl Harbor enraged us.
  When they bombed our big fleet
  It spelled their own defeat
Since the Axis had finally engaged us.

As soon as the gauntlet was thrown,
We accepted the war as full-blown.
  General Ike in command
  Had D-Day as his plan
So Normandy could be overthrown.

Our troops then advanced toward the Rhine
Paratrooping behind enemy lines.
  Hitler knew he had lost
  But still had to exhaust
All his troops; no treaty would he sign.

He ordered "Fight on!" from underground,
But killed himself and didn't hang around.
  His resignation thus tendered,
  His successor surrendered
And victory in Europe was found.

But Pearl Harbor had not been forgotten,
And in Manhattan we'd been plotting.
  The A-bomb was developed
  Created to envelop
In flames those we then saw as rotten.

We told Japan to give up, they said no.
So the Enola Gay let one bomb go.
  Hiroshima was hit,
  But Japan still wouldn't quit,
So Nagasaki then got bombed also.

Japan finally agreed to end the war,
Which it should have done long before.
  Even Emperor Hirohito
  Urged surrender complete-o
Since bombs kill both civilians and corps.

Though a victory's something to celebrate
A war is bad for all that participate.
  Perhaps time has drawn nigh
  To let bygones go by,
And not be the lone grudge-holding state.