M.I.A. -- Avenged Sevenfold

Staring at the carnage, praying that the sun would never rise.
Living another day in disguise. These feelings can't be right, lend me
your courage to stand up and fight, home tonight.  Stand up and fight

The fighting rages on and on, to challenge me you must be strong.
I walk your land but don't belong, two million soldiers can't be wrong
It's no fun but I've been here before I'm far from home and I'm fighting
your war.  Some are scared others killing for fun, I shot a mother right in front of her son.


(**)  Fight for honor, fight for your life  Pray to God that our side is right.
Even though we won, I still may lose  Until I make it home to you
I see our mothers filled with tears,  grew up so fast where did those years
go?  Memories won't let you cry,  unless I don't return tonight

So many soldiers on the other side, I take their lives so they can't take mine.
Nobody tells me all the reasons we're here. I have my weapons so there's
nothing to fear.  

(**)  

Staring at the carnage, praying that the sun would never rise.
Living another day in disguise. These feelings can't be right, lend me
your courage to stand up and fight.  Watching the death toll rise wondering how I'm alive.  Stranger's blood on my hands, I've shot all I can
There are no silent nights, watching your brothers all die
To destroy all their plans with no thought of me
No thought of me, no thought of me   Walk the city lonely
Memories that haunt are passing by  A murderer walks your streets tonight
Forgive me for my crimes;don't forget that I was so young
Fought so scared in the name of God and Country                              (sing365)

Avenged Sevenfold wrote this song about the American troops who were fighting the war in Iraq. The band claims to have friends who fought in the war, and wanted to give their listeners an idea of what war is like. Even though they are not a political band, they wanted to present the view of someone going to battle as a troop. 

M.I.A. stands for "Missing In Action," which accounts for soldiers who could have been killed or captured in combat.

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"Missing In Action 

       

There are many missing service personnel from the Korean War. It is thought that 13,000 South Korean soldiers and 2,000 U.S. soldiers are buried in the Korean Demilitarized Zone alone. 

In the United States armed forces, the 8,177 service members listed as missing in action constituted over 15 percent of the total killed in the conflict. In August 1953, General James Van Fleet, who had led US and UN forces in Korea, estimated that "a large percentage" of those soldiers listed missing in action were alive.

The 1991–1993 United States Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs investigated some outstanding issues and reports related to the fate of U.S. service personnel still missing from the Korean War. Remains of missing service personnel from the Korean War are periodically recovered and identified. 

According to the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office there are still 7,989 U.S. servicemen still unaccounted for from the Korean War. 

While the United States knew in 1953 that at least 900 troops were held captive by North Korea and never released, this information was never released. Historians suggest this was because Americans would have demanded their soldiers be returned home. In 1996, the Defense Department stated that there was no clear evidence any of the prisoners were still alive. As of 2005, at least 500 South Korean prisoners of war were believed to be still detained by the North Korean regime.             (wikipedia)