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The song "March to the Witch's Castle" (Westbound Records # WB 2022) is another important representation of P.O.W.s and veterans in the post-war period, looking at their adjustment to the US non-wartime society. The narrator started by noting the date 12 February 1973 as the "happiest day" in thirteen years - the beginning of Operation Homecoming, returning American prisoners of war (P.O.W.s) to the US, held by North Vietnam, and thus answering the "prayers of thousands". However, the narrator soon turned his attention to "the nightmare of readjustment". It recalled the veteran's war time struggles, with the lines "death waited in the shadows...his enemies were many", as well as problems back home, such as the news that "his loved one remarried" while a P.O.W. It also included an early reference to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): "what has happened to his mind". At the end of the song the narrator criticised the 'peace with honor' claim of President Richard Nixon and his National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, asking how it could be when "thousands of boys gave their life".

"February 12th, 1973, the prayers of thousands were answered

The war was over, and the first of the prisoners returned...it was

The happiest day in up to thirteen years, for others, the real

Nightmare had just begun, the nightmare of readjustment...father

Bless the soldier who has returned home from the war, he has

Fought with all his might, yet he knew not for what or who he

Was fighting for, death waited in the shadows, as he crawled by

Night for his country, his enemies were many, including the habit

He still cannot break...what has happened to his mind and help us

Understand his reaction to the changes that have taken place here

At home, help him understand, that when his loved one remarried

They were truly under the impression that he was dead...someone

Said this war ended with 'peace with honor', but can there truly be?

Is there such a thing? Thousands of boys gave their life, and for what?"