How can they say goodbye?

To a place they used to call home;
Where tears and joy are sown.
To those they fought countless battles with;
And who they fought it for.
To a stage they spent nights praying,
While others are out roving and playing.
These are memories so precious,
That I wish I will never lose hold of.
To guard and to cherish, Lord, help me not to wander off.
Amen.