[00:13.92]She walked to the mailbox[00:17.28]On that bright summers day[00:21.18]Found a letter from her son[00:25.56]In a war, far away[00:30.30]He spoke of the weather[00:34.05]And good friends that he'd made[00:36.24]Said, " I'd been thinking 'bout dadAnd the life that he had that's why, I'm here today"[00:45.42]And then in the end he said, "You are what I'm fighting for"[00:52.47]It was the first of his letters from war[01:01.35]She started writing[01:03.15]You're good and you're brave[01:07.20]What a father that you'll be someday[01:11.49]Make it home, make it safe[01:16.32]She wrote every night as she prayed[01:24.12]Late in December[01:25.47]A day, she'll not forget[01:32.01]Oh, her tears stained the paper[01:35.10]With every word that she read[01:38.94]It said, "I was up on a hill, I was out there aloneWhen the shots all rang out and bombs were explodingThat's when I saw him, he came back for meAnd though he was captured a man set me freeAnd that man was your son, he asked me to write to youI told him, I would, Oh, I swore"[02:07.47]It was the last of the letters from war[02:13.65]And she prayed, he was living, kept on believing[02:18.51]And wrote every night just to say[02:22.20]You are good and you're brave[02:26.49]What a father that you'll be someday[02:30.78]Make it home, make it safe[02:35.70]Still she kept writing each day[02:43.23]Then two years later[02:47.13]Autumn leaves, all around[02:51.27]A car pulled in the driveway[02:56.64]And she fell to the ground[03:00.48]And out stepped a captain[03:03.96]Where her boy used to stand[03:06.78]He said, "Mom, I'm followin' ordersFrom all of your letters and I've come home again"[03:18.84]He ran into hold her, dropped all his bags on the floor[03:23.79]Holdin' all of her letters from war[03:33.18]Bring him home[03:33.60]Bring him home[03:42.18]Bring him home