{"id":19488,"date":"2023-12-20T17:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T17:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=19488"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:43:31","slug":"salute-to-the-nurses-of-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/salute-to-the-nurses-of-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Salute to the Nurses of the Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Salute To The Nurses\" width=\"990\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/thgq9LTcmHI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>by Sgt Barry Sadler<\/p>\n<p>After the battle, after the fight<br \/>\nMany owe their lives to the ladies and men in white<br \/>\nAnd all of the troops in this war torn land<br \/>\nSalute the Nurses of the Land<\/p>\n<p>They know the awful toll of war each day<br \/>\nThey know more than any the price we pay<br \/>\nA soldier, whose hands too burned to write<br \/>\nA nurse takes down their words through the lonely night<\/p>\n<p>They have gone to the front where men fought<br \/>\nIn the night from Pleiku to Qui Nhon<br \/>\nWhere war, these men fight<br \/>\nMany a wounded soldier pain is eased for a while<br \/>\nBy opening his eyes to see a nurse&#8217;s smile<\/p>\n<p>To each of the wounded on the operating shelf<br \/>\nThese nurses give a part of themselves<br \/>\nI know every soldier to the last man will<br \/>\nSometimes say a prayer for the Nurses of the Land<\/p>\n<p>After the battle, after the fight<br \/>\nMany owe their lives to the ladies and men in white<br \/>\nAnd all of the men in this war torn land<br \/>\nSalute the Nurses of the Land<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/lyricstranslate.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sgt Barry Sadler After the battle, after the fight Many owe their lives to the ladies and men in white And all of the troops in this war torn land Salute the Nurses of the Land They know the awful toll of war each day They know more than &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/salute-to-the-nurses-of-the-land\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Salute to the Nurses of the Land<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,117,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-patriotic-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}