Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Gone to young girls, every one!
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?
Where have all the young girls gone, long time passing?
Where have all the young girls gone, long time ago?
Where have all the young girls gone?
Gone to young men, every one!
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the young men gone, long time passing?
Where have all the young men gone, long time ago?
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone to soldiers, every one!
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?

And where have all the soldiers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the soldiers gone, a long time ago?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, every one!
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?

And where have all the graveyards gone, long time passing?
Where have all the graveyards gone, long time ago?
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Gone to flowers, every one!
When will they ever learn, oh when will they ever learn?

WAR TITLE WAR YEARS CASUALTIES
Revolutionary War  (1775-1783) 4,435 
War of 1812  (1812-1815) 2,260
Mexican War  (1846-1848) 13,283 
Civil War  (1861-1865) 623,026 
Spanish-American War  (1898) 2,446 
World War I  (1917-1918) 116,708 
World War II  (1941-1945) 407,316
Korean War  (1950-1953) 36,914 
Vietnam War  (1964-1973) 58,169 
Invasion of Grenada  (1983) 19
Persian Gulf War  (1991)  269 
Afghanistan  (2002-2007) 350+
Operation: Iraqi Freedom  (2003-2007) 3,500+
TOTALS 52 years+ 1,268,695+