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Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

0 posted 2012-03-02 10:29 AM

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It’s very easy
After forty years
Especially for one
Who has made it
Through

To make light
Of the heat
The long monsoon
Sound of guns
Rockets coming in

The stupid ways
We found to die
The green just there
Then disappeared

Oh we were young
And had no clue
Protected by what
We didn’t know

I have no
Fond memories
Of Vietnam

Boots in the corner
No plaque on the wall

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luminosity
Senior Member

since 2005-11-18

Posts 813

1 posted 2012-03-02 12:19 PM

oh my........am wiping tears......you have my thank you...for your service, and for this touching remembrance

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

2 posted 2012-03-02 07:36 PM

those were most difficult times indeed ...

worse than the loss of 'innocence' (for me at least) ...
was the loss of 'faith' or 'belief' in anything ...

Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

3 posted 2012-03-02 07:39 PM

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Thank you

This thing came as a reaction,
(not a response), to:

http://www.amazon.com/Semper-Cool-Marines-Memories-Vi etnam/dp/0982518404/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330734733&sr=1-1

which represents along with a bad biography
of General Westmorland over half the books I’ve
read about that war.

Thanks again for reading

John

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ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

4 posted 2012-03-02 07:57 PM

I believe Wiford Owen, had he not been killed, would have written something like this, after, had he had an after.

Excellent war poem.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack of what is found there"
(William Carlos Williams)

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

5 posted 2012-03-02 08:38 PM

Yep... truth in a nut shell.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2012-03-03 12:34 PM

War is always a wretched thing for all concerned.
Ida

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

7 posted 2012-03-05 07:24 PM

Fine writing...James

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

8 posted 2012-03-13 03:43 PM

I couldn't agree with you more... I've heard silence, not stories... and seen the eyes of brave men look away from memories. It wasn't cool by any definition of the word.

Thank you so much for your service.

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