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A Picture of War

I fought in a war a few many years ago they called it Vietnam but I called it hell. My unit and I were in battle it was starting to get dark and somehow the unit got separated. I keep walking through the jungle to find them. But out of nowhere I herd gun fire I know rite then I had just been ambushed I took more bullets then I could count. I know it has been year’s sense that night but it feels like it happened yesterday. When my unit found me they thought I was dead but somehow I had hung on. I had lost so much blood it was not a pretty sight they all thought I was going to die for sure. The pain was so unbearable I just wanted to die. I still hung on I am not quite sure why I really thought I was going to die. But God had his hands on me if it would not have been for the miracle God gave me I would not be telling you this story. I thank God everyday for saving my life that night. Because getting shot by fifteen bullets is quite a fright I should have died that night. But God had something better for me in his plan. After the war they gave me a purple heart but I must have had a heart of steal to make it through. My unit gave me a nickname which I carry with me now still today. They call me the silver bullet the brave soldier who lived.

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Date: 4/15/2012 2:29:00 PM
Congratulations on our poetry being featured this week Craig. Love, Carol
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Craig Schaber
Date: 4/15/2012 2:32:00 PM
thanks
Date: 4/15/2012 6:49:00 AM
This does paint the horrors of war as I read it. My father died years ago from agent orange. He had been picked to go into Vietnam before the wars started. He left the war but the war never left him. Please read my three pieces dedicated to him; Confessions of a soldier, Midnight tears, Letters from the battlefield.
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Craig Schaber
Date: 4/15/2012 6:51:00 AM
thanks and i will read them take care. my father was there to.
Date: 4/8/2012 8:28:00 PM
wow man powerful stuff, great work.
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Craig Schaber
Date: 4/13/2012 8:19:00 PM
thanks 4 your kind words

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